| NOUN | attribute | asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness | something hard to endure |
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| attribute | asperity, sharpness | harshness of manner |
| Sounds | ahspeh'rihtiy | |
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| Rhymes | ability ... zloty: 638 rhymes with tiy... | |
| Meaning | Something hard to endure. | |
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| Example | "the asperity of northern winters" | |
| Synonyms | grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness | |
| Narrower | sternness | The quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding / forbidding |
| Broader | difficulty, difficultness | The quality of being difficult |
| Spanish | adustez, rigor, rigurosidad, severidad | |
| Catalan | adustesa, dificultats, rigor, severitat | |
| Meaning | harshness of manner. | |
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| Synonym | sharpness | |
| Broader | ill nature | A disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition |
| Opposite | dullness, bluntness | Without sharpness or clearness of edge or point |
| Spanish | aspereza | |
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