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Roughness vs Sternness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between roughness and sternness

is that roughness is the property of being rough, coarseness while sternness is the state or quality of being stern.

roughness

English

(wikipedia roughness)

Noun

  • The property of being rough, coarseness.
    • The roughness of the road made me wonder if my car would fall apart.

    sternness

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being stern.
  • * 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
    • There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.
  • (countable) The result or product of being stern.