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Asperity vs Petulance - What's the difference?

asperity | petulance |

As nouns the difference between asperity and petulance

is that asperity is roughness as of stone or weather while petulance is the property of being petulant.

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 .

    petulance

    English

    Noun

  • The property of being petulant.
  • * Clarendon
    • Like pride in some, and like petulance in others.
  • * Cowper
    • The lowering eye, the petulance , the frown.
  • * 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 29 (ISBN 1857150570)
    • She had not done this, but had shown herself angry and sore, and was now ashamed of her own petulance , and yet unable to discontinue it.