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Asperity vs Crabbedness - What's the difference?

asperity | crabbedness | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between asperity and crabbedness

is that asperity is roughness as of stone or weather while crabbedness is the state or quality of being crabbed.

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 .

    crabbedness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being crabbed.