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Moroseness vs Harshness - What's the difference?

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Moroseness is a related term of harshness.


As nouns the difference between moroseness and harshness

is that moroseness is gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness while harshness is the quality of being harsh.

moroseness

English

Noun

(-)
  • Gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness.
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  • *:He acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness ; and he took a grim pleasure, apparently, in exciting the aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintance.

    • Synonyms

    * morosity

    References

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    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.