Harshness

Quick meaning: Harshness is a noun meaning The quality of being harsh.

Meaning

The quality of being harsh.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• harshnesses

Synonyms for harshness

Depending on context, synonyms include severity, cruelty, inclemency, stiffness, abrasiveness, hardness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include severity, cruelness, roughness, hardness, stiffness, cruelty.

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