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Barbarity vs Harshness - What's the difference?

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Barbarity is a related term of harshness.


As nouns the difference between barbarity and harshness

is that barbarity is (uncountable) the state of being barbarous; brutality while harshness is the quality of being harsh.

barbarity

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being barbarous; brutality
  • (countable) A barbaric act
  • (uncountable) crudity
  • (countable) A crude act

    • harshness

    English

    Noun

  • The quality of being harsh.
  • *1891 , (Thomas Hardy), (w, Tess of the d'Urbervilles) , Part 6:
  • *:And yet these harshnesses' are tenderness itself when compared with the universal '''harshness''' out of which they grow; the ' harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of to-day towards yesterday, of hereafter towards to-day.
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  • *:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.