Brutality vs Harshness - What's the difference?
brutality | harshness | Synonyms |
The state of being brutal.
A cruel or savage act.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 The use of excessive physical force e.g. police brutality.
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.
Brutality is a synonym of harshness.
As nouns the difference between brutality and harshness
is that brutality is the state of being brutal while harshness is the quality of being harsh.brutality
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Noun
(brutalities)citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
harshness
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Noun
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