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Acrimony vs Sternness - What's the difference?

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Acrimony is a related term of sternness.


As nouns the difference between acrimony and sternness

is that acrimony is a sharp and bitter hatred while sternness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being stern.

acrimony

English

Noun

(acrimonies)
  • A sharp and bitter hatred.
    • Her acrimony for her neighbors manifests itself with shouting and stomping.
  • * 1826 , , Chapter 12
    • In her resentful mood, these expressions had been remembered with acrimony and disdain; [...].

    Synonyms

    * animosity * bitterness * enmity * hatred * opposition

    Antonyms

    * friendship * peace

    sternness

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being stern.
  • * 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
    • There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.
  • (countable) The result or product of being stern.