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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.
harshness
The quality of being harsh.
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  1. The quality of being harsh.
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
decidedness
The state or quality of being decided.
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  1. The state or quality of being decided.
decision
The written determination of a court or administrative tribunal disposing of motions or claims in a case or matter before it. The written determination of a court or administrative tribunal disposing of motions or claims in a case or matter before it.
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  1. The written determination of a court or administrative tribunal disposing of motions or claims in a case or matter before it. The written determination of a court or administrative tribunal disposing of motions or claims in a case or matter before it.
  2. A conclusion or judgment reached after consideration:
  3. Firmness of character or action; determination:
decisiveness
The state or quality of being decisive.
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  1. The state or quality of being decisive.
determination
The settling of a question or case by an authoritative decision or pronouncement, especially by a judicial body:
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  1. The settling of a question or case by an authoritative decision or pronouncement, especially by a judicial body:
  2. Firmness of purpose; resolve:
  3. A decision arrived at by thought and investigation; conclusion
purpose
Determination; resolution:
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  1. Determination; resolution:
  2. The object toward which one strives or for which something exists; an aim or goal:
  3. Resolution; determination
purposefulness
(Uncountable) The state of being purposeful.
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  1. (Uncountable) The state of being purposeful.
resoluteness
The state or characteristic of being resolute; determination or resolution.
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  1. The state or characteristic of being resolute; determination or resolution.
resolution
A formal statement of opinion or determination adopted by an assembly or other formal group
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  1. A formal statement of opinion or determination adopted by an assembly or other formal group
  2. The thing determined upon; decision as to future action; resolve
  3. A formal statement of a decision or expression of opinion put before or adopted by an assembly such as the US Congress.
resolve
A formal resolution made by a deliberative body.
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  1. A formal resolution made by a deliberative body.
  2. Firmness of purpose; resolution:
  3. A determination or decision; a fixed purpose:
will
A document spelling out what is to be done with the person’s (testator’s) belongings after she has died. Such document has no force while the person is alive and may be altered or revoked at any time, but becomes applicable at the time of the testator’s death to whatever the conditions of the estate are at the time of death. The difference between a deed and a will is that a deed passes an interest upon delivery, while a will is effective only on death.
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  1. A document spelling out what is to be done with the person’s (testator’s) belongings after she has died. Such document has no force while the person is alive and may be altered or revoked at any time, but becomes applicable at the time of the testator’s death to whatever the conditions of the estate are at the time of death. The difference between a deed and a will is that a deed passes an interest upon delivery, while a will is effective only on death.
  2. The particular desire, purpose, pleasure, choice, etc. of a certain person or group
  3. The power of making a reasoned choice or decision or of controlling one's own actions
willpower
Strength of will, mind, or determination; self-control
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  1. Strength of will, mind, or determination; self-control
  2. The strength of will to carry out one's decisions, wishes, or plans.
Find another word for toughness. In this page you can discover 25 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for toughness, like: austerity, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency and decidedness.

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  • She'd never found someone with her mental toughness, someone who could challenge her.

  • Its strength and toughness render it valuable for naval purposes, to which it is largely applied; its freedom from any tendency to split adapts it for clinker-built boats.

  • Such an alloy can be cast like ordinary bronze, but excels the latter in hardness, elasticity, toughness and tensile strength.

  • 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.

  • The most constant use of curled maple is for the stocks of fowling-pieces and rifles, as it affords toughness and strength combined with lightness and elegance.

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