What does harshness mean?
Harshness means The quality of being harsh..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The quality of being harsh..
And yet these harshnesses are tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of to-day towards yesterday, of hereafter towards to-day.
She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
Use harshness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Harshness means The quality of being harsh..
Common synonyms include severity, cruelty, inclemency, stiffness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
And yet these harshnesses are tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of to-day towards yesterday, of hereafter towards to-day.
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