Inclemency vs Storminess - What's the difference?
inclemency | storminess | Synonyms |
The quality of being inclement
A lack of clemency
Something that is inclement
*{{quote-book, year=1849, author=Edwin Bryant, title=What I Saw in California, chapter=, edition=
, passage=They are built of rough sticks, covered with bulrushes or grass, in such a manner as to completely protect the inhabitants from all the inclemencies of the weather. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1874, author=Jules Verne, title=The Mysterious Island, chapter=, edition=
, passage=There had been rain, squalls mingled with snow, hailstorms, gusts of wind, but these inclemencies did not last. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Charles Sylvester, title=Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The cry of the suffering and dying rings in our ears, as they are dragged from their beds, to be exposed to the inclemencies of the ice-covered sea in an open boat. }}
(uncountable) The state or quality of being stormy
(countable) The severity of a storm
Inclemency is a synonym of storminess.
As nouns the difference between inclemency and storminess
is that inclemency is the quality of being inclement while storminess is (uncountable) the state or quality of being stormy.inclemency
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