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Hardness vs Puissance - What's the difference?

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Hardness is a related term of puissance.


As nouns the difference between hardness and puissance

is that hardness is the quality of being hard while puissance is power, might or potency.

hardness

English

Noun

  • The quality of being hard.
  • An instance of this quality; hardship.

    • See also

    * hardiness

    References

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    puissance

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Power, might or potency.
  • *, II.12:
    • We easily pronounce puissance , truth and justice; they be words importing some great matter, but that thing we neither see nor conceive.
  • * 2006 , (Clive James), North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 66:
    • Any impression of mental puissance might have been increased by the fact that I was usually to be seen working hard with notebook and biro, shaping up a new book review or a linking script.
  • The high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.

    • See also

    * pouvoir * puissant English abstract nouns ----