Asperity vs Animadversion - What's the difference?
asperity | animadversion |
Roughness as of stone or weather.
Harshness, as of temper.
* 1878 : :
Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
(geology) A part of a geological fault line that does not move.
(countable) A criticism, a critical remark.
* 1827 , , The Journal of Sir Walter Scott , January 1827:
* 1895 , Elias Lyman Magoon, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers , p. 357:
(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being animadversive.
* 1603 , (translator unknown), (author), Essayes , Volumes 5-6?, p. 3-4:
* 1788 , , Federalist No. 67, The Executive Department:
As nouns the difference between asperity and animadversion
is that asperity is roughness as of stone or weather while animadversion is animosity.asperity
English
Noun
(asperities)- asperity of Maine's winter
- Go, ribald, get you hence
To your cabin with celerity.
This is the consequence
Of ill-advised asperity !
- Earthquakes begin and end at asperities .
animadversion
English
Noun
(en noun)- [A] misconstruction or misinterpretation, nay, the misplacing of a comma, was in Gifford's eyes a crime worthy of the most severe animadversion .
- While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself; upon the principle well understood in medical circles, that the feeblest bodies are always the most sensitive.
- He was deceived; for justice hath also knowledge and animadversion over such as gather stubble (as the common saying is) or looke about for grape-seed.
- Nor have I scrupled, in so flagrant a case, to allow myself a severity of animadversion little congenial with the general spirit of these papers.