Roughness vs Asperity - What's the difference?
roughness | asperity |
The property of being rough, coarseness.
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.
As nouns the difference between roughness and asperity
is that roughness is the property of being rough, coarseness while asperity is roughness as of stone or weather.roughness
English
(wikipedia roughness)Noun
- The roughness of the road made me wonder if my car would fall apart.
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 .