Rigor vs Harshness - What's the difference?
rigor | harshness | Synonyms |
(slang) an abbreviated form of rigor mortis.
* 2005 , Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade , page 4, paragraph 3
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.
Rigor is a synonym of harshness.
As nouns the difference between rigor and harshness
is that rigor is while harshness is the quality of being harsh.rigor
English
Noun
- Heat always upped the rate at which rigor gripped a corpse.
harshness
English
Noun
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