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Poignancy vs Asperity - What's the difference?

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Poignancy is a related term of asperity.


As nouns the difference between poignancy and asperity

is that poignancy is the quality of being poignant while asperity is roughness as of stone or weather.

poignancy

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The quality of being poignant
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    asperity

    English

    Noun

    (asperities)
  • Roughness as of stone or weather.
    • asperity of Maine's winter
  • Harshness, as of temper.
  • * 1878 : :
    • Go, ribald, get you hence
    To your cabin with celerity.
    This is the consequence
    Of ill-advised asperity !
  • Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
  • (geology) A part of a geological fault line that does not move.
    • Earthquakes begin and end at asperities .