Asperity vs Moroseness - What's the difference?
asperity | moroseness | Synonyms |
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.
Gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness.
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*:He acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness ; and he took a grim pleasure, apparently, in exciting the aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintance.
Asperity is a synonym of moroseness.
As nouns the difference between asperity and moroseness
is that asperity is roughness as of stone or weather while moroseness is gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness.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 .
