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Harshness synonyms

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crudity
The condition or quality of being crude
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  1. The condition or quality of being crude
  2. A crude action, remark, etc.
brutality
The state or quality of being ruthless, cruel, harsh, or unrelenting.
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  1. The state or quality of being ruthless, cruel, harsh, or unrelenting.
  2. A brutal or savage act, treatment, etc.
  3. The use of excessive physical force e.g. police brutality.
acerbity
A sour, astringent quality
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  1. A sour, astringent quality
  2. Sourness or acidness of taste, character, or tone.
  3. Sharpness, bitterness, or harshness of temper, words, etc.
austerity
The quality or condition of being austere
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  1. The quality or condition of being austere
  2. An austere act, habit, practice, or manner
  3. Severe and rigid economy:
hardness
The state or quality of being hard (in various senses)
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  1. The state or quality of being hard (in various senses)
  2. A measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched. Hardness is measured on the Mohs scale.
  3. The relative resistance of a metal or other material to denting, scratching, or bending.
rigidity
The quality or state of being rigid.
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  1. The quality or state of being rigid.
  2. In Economics: synonym for stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.
  3. 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.
rigor
Strictness or severity, as in action or judgment:
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  1. Strictness or severity, as in action or judgment:
  2. (Medicine) Shivering or trembling, as caused by a chill.
  3. Harshness or severity
severity
Rigid accuracy
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  1. Rigid accuracy
  2. The act or an instance of severe behavior, especially punishment.
  3. Strictness; harshness
sternness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being stern.
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  1. (Uncountable) The state or quality of being stern.
  2. (Countable) The result or product of being stern.
strictness
(Countable) The result or product of being strict.
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  1. (Countable) The result or product of being strict.
  2. (Uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
stringency
A scarcity of money or credit
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  1. A scarcity of money or credit
  2. A rigorous imposition of standards
  3. The quality or state of being stringent; strictness; severity
toughness
(Uncountable) The state of being tough
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  1. (Uncountable) The state of being tough
  2. (Physics, of a metal) Resistance to fracture when stressed
  3. A formidable difficulty
Find another word for harshness. In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for harshness, like: crudity, brutality, acerbity, anger, cruelty, tyranny, austerity, hardness, rigidity, rigor and rigorousness.

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  • Why did they not seem inflicted by the harshness his people knew?

  • The National Gallery "Virgin of the Rocks" certainly, with help from Ambrogio de Predis; in this the Florentine character of the original is modified by an admixture of Milanese elements, the tendency to harshness and over-elaboration of detail softened, the strained action of the angel's pointing hand altogether dropped, while in many places pupils' work seems recognizable beside that of the master.

  • The hills and farmlands gradually turned to inner suburbia and then to the harshness of urban streets, choked tightly with the crush, smells and sounds of the city.

  • In the middle notes of the musical register the maximum harshness occurs when the beats are about 30.

  • But the harshness certainly reflects a characteristic attitude of mind.

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