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 | |
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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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