Hardness synonyms and antonyms

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toughness
(Uncountable) The state of being tough
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severity
Strictness; harshness
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severeness
The property of being severe.
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stiffness
Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
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softness (antonym)
The quality of being soft.
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unfeelingness
The state or condition of being unfeeling.
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tensile (related)
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porosity (related)
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fineness (related)
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brinell (related)
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formability (related)
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flexural (related)
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compressive (related)
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ductility (related)
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fastness
The condition or quality of being fast, especially:
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security
Security is defined as being free from danger, or feeling safe.
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soundness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being sound.
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stability
Stability is the state of being resistant to change and not prone to wild fluctuations in emotion.
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stableness
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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steadiness
The state of being steady
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strength
Intensity of emotion or belief:
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sturdiness
The state or quality of being sturdy.
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sureness
(Uncountable) The property of being sure, certainty.
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austerity
An austere act, habit, practice, or manner
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harshness
The quality of being harsh.
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rigidity
The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form.
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rigor
Extreme hardship or difficulty
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rigorousness
The property of being rigorous, strictness.
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sternness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being stern.
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strictness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
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better (related)
An entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior.
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change (related)
Something different; variety:
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continue (related)
(Video games) an option allowing a player to resume a saved game.
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easy (related)
The fact or condition of being rigorous and unsparing
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rigour
A trembling or shivering response.
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rigourousness
Nonstandard spelling of rigorousness.
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inclemency
Something that is inclement
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ruggedness
The state of being, or degree to which something is rugged.
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callousness
The quality of being callous; emotional hardheartedness or indifference.
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callosity
(Countable) A callus
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insensibility
The property of being insensible.
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viscosity (related)
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roughness (related)
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conductivity (related)
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thickness (related)
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Hardness Sentence Examples

  • The hardness came back into his eyes and he looked away.

  • You get used to knowing the different types of hardness and thickness.

  • The bearing of the pivot is called a step or footstep. Pivots require great hardness, and are usually made of steel.

  • The characters of softness or hardness, dryness or moisture, &c., are taken account of in these classifications.

  • With repeated hammering, drawing out and annealing, it gains much in strength and toughness, and the addition of a very minute quantity of carbon converts it into steel, less tough, but of the keenest hardness.

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