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Savagery vs Harshness - What's the difference?

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Savagery is a related term of harshness.


As nouns the difference between savagery and harshness

is that savagery is the status of being savage while harshness is the quality of being harsh.

savagery

English

Noun

(savageries)
  • the status of being savage
  • a violent act of cruelty
  • savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity

    • 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.