| NOUN | attribute | hardness | the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure |
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| attribute | hardness | a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering | |
| attribute | hardness, unfeelingness, callousness, callosity, insensibility | devoid of passion or feeling | |
| attribute | hardness, ruggedness | the quality of being difficult to do | |
| attribute | hardness, severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, stiffness | excessive sternness |
| Sounds | hhaa'rdnahs | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | The property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale. | |
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| Attributes | hard | Resisting weight or pressure |
| soft | Yielding readily to pressure or weight | |
| Narrower | firmness | The property of being unyielding to the touch |
| incompressibility | The property of being incompressible | |
| Broader | consistency, consistence, substance, body | The property of holding together and retaining its shape |
| Opposite | softness | The property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or molded |
| Spanish | dureza | |
| Adjectives | hard | resisting weight or pressure |
| Meaning | A quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering. | |
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| Example | "the costs of reducing hardness depend on the relative amounts of calcium and magnesium compounds that are present" | |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
| Meaning | Devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness. | |
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| Synonyms | unfeelingness, callousness, callosity, insensibility | |
| Narrower | dullness | lack of sensibility |
| Broader | insensitivity, insensitiveness | The inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment |
| Spanish | dureza, insensibilidad | |
| Catalan | duresa | |
| Adjectives | hard | dispassionate |
| Meaning | The quality of being difficult to do. | |
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| Example | "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness" | |
| Synonym | ruggedness | |
| Broader | difficulty, difficultness | The quality of being difficult |
| Spanish | dureza | |
| Catalan | duresa | |
| Adjectives | hard | not easy |
| hard | characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion | |
| Meaning | excessive sternness. | |
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| Synonyms | severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, stiffness | |
| Broader | sternness, strictness | uncompromising resolution |
| Spanish | adustez, austeridad, dureza, inclemencia, rigidez, rigor, rigurosidad, severidad | |
| Catalan | inclemència, rigor | |
| Adjectives | hard | unfortunate / unfortunate or hard to bear |
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