Inclemency vs Roughness - What's the difference?
inclemency | roughness | 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. }}
The property of being rough, coarseness.
Inclemency is a synonym of roughness.
As nouns the difference between inclemency and roughness
is that inclemency is the quality of being inclement while roughness is the property of being rough, coarseness.inclemency
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- The roughness of the road made me wonder if my car would fall apart.