Ruthlessness vs Harshness - What's the difference?
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The property of being ruthless
*{{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=Phil Dawkes
, title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom
, work=BBC Sport
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 ruthlessness and harshness
is that ruthlessness is the property of being ruthless while harshness is the quality of being harsh.ruthlessness
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Noun
(-)citation, page= , passage=Five minutes into the game the Black Cats were facing a mountain, partly because of West Brom's newly-found ruthlessness in front of goal but also as a result of the home side's defensive generosity.}}
Synonyms
* mercilessnessAnagrams
*harshness
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Noun
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