Stiffness vs Harshness - What's the difference?
stiffness | harshness | Related terms |
Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
Inelegance, lacking relaxedness.
* 1699 , ,
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.
Stiffness is a related term of harshness.
As nouns the difference between stiffness and harshness
is that stiffness is rigidity or a measure of rigidity while harshness is the quality of being harsh.stiffness
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Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness , the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
harshness
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