Asperity vs Spleen - What's the difference?
asperity | spleen |
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.
(anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
A bad mood; spitefulness.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete, rare) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
* Alexander Pope
* Wordsworth
A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between asperity and spleen
is that asperity is roughness as of stone or weather while spleen is obsession,.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 .
spleen
English
(wikipedia spleen)Noun
(en noun)- In noble minds some dregs remain, / Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.
- A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways.
- Bodies changed to various forms by spleen .
- There is a luxury in self-dispraise: / And inward self-disparagement affords / To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
- Thy silly thought enforces my spleen .