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Harshness vs Roughness - What's the difference?

harshness | roughness | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between harshness and roughness

is that harshness is the quality of being harsh while roughness is the property of being rough, coarseness.

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.

    • roughness

    English

    (wikipedia roughness)

    Noun

  • The property of being rough, coarseness.
    • The roughness of the road made me wonder if my car would fall apart.