Asperity vs Spite - What's the difference?
asperity | spite |
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.
Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
(obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
As nouns the difference between asperity and spite
is that asperity is roughness as of stone or weather while spite is ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.As a verb spite is
to treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.As a preposition spite is
notwithstanding; despite.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 .
spite
English
Etymology 1
From a shortening of (etyl) despit, from (etyl) despit (whence despite). Compare also Dutch spijt.Noun
(en-noun)- He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.
- They did it just for spite .
- This is the deadly spite that angers.
- "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite." Shakespeare, Hamlet
Verb
(spit)- She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
- The Danes, then pagans, spited places of religion. — Fuller.
- Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavoured to abolish not only their learning, but their language. — Sir. W. Temple.