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Harshness vs Hardness - What's the difference?

harshness | hardness |

Hardness is a derived term of harshness.



As nouns the difference between harshness and hardness

is that harshness is the quality of being harsh while hardness is the quality of being hard.

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.

    • hardness

    English

    Noun

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

    • See also

    * hardiness

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