Asperity vs Harshness - What's the difference?
asperity | harshness |
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.
The quality of being harsh.
*1891 , (Thomas Hardy), (w, Tess of the d'Urbervilles) ,
*: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.
As nouns the difference between asperity and harshness
is that asperity is roughness as of stone or weather while harshness is the quality of being harsh.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 .
harshness
English
Noun
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