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Ruthlessness vs Harshness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between ruthlessness and harshness

is that ruthlessness is the property of being ruthless while harshness is the quality of being harsh.

ruthlessness

English

Noun

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  • The property of being ruthless
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Five minutes into the game the Black Cats were facing a mountain, partly because of West Brom's newly-found ruthlessness in front of goal but also as a result of the home side's defensive generosity.}}

    Synonyms

    * mercilessness

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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.