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Amenity vs Asperity - What's the difference?

amenity | asperity |

As nouns the difference between amenity and asperity

is that amenity is pleasantness while asperity is roughness as of stone or weather.

amenity

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(amenities)
  • Pleasantness.
    • We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday.
  • A thing or circumstance that is welcome and makes life a little easier or more pleasant.
    • All the little amenities the hotel provided made our stay very enjoyable.
  • Convenience.
  • (cartography) a unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library etc.

    • Synonyms

    * (piece of infrastructure) facility, infrastructure

    Derived terms

    * * *

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    asperity

    English

    Noun

    (asperities)
  • Roughness as of stone or weather.
    • asperity of Maine's winter
  • Harshness, as of temper.
  • * 1878 : :
    • Go, ribald, get you hence
    To your cabin with celerity.
    This is the consequence
    Of ill-advised asperity !
  • Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
  • (geology) A part of a geological fault line that does not move.
    • Earthquakes begin and end at asperities .