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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