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Viciousness vs Harshness - What's the difference?

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Viciousness is a related term of harshness.


As nouns the difference between viciousness and harshness

is that viciousness is the characteristic of being vicious while harshness is the quality of being harsh.

viciousness

English

Noun

  • the characteristic of being vicious
  • the desire to cause harm to others; extreme cruelty

    • Synonyms

    * (being vicious) viciosity, vitiosity

    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.