Defenition of the word harshness

• Defenition of the word harshness

  • the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
  • the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions
  • harsh or rough to the ear
  • excessive sternness; "the severity of his punishment was inhuman"
  • excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
  • excessive sternness
  • the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses

Synonyms for the word harshness

• • abrasiveness
  • austerity
  • bleakness
  • callousness
  • cruelness
  • cruelty
  • hardness
  • inclemency
  • insensitivity
  • roughness
  • ruggedness
  • ruthlessness
  • scratchiness
  • severity
  • starkness
  • stiffness
  • strictness
  • unkindness

Similar words in the harshness

• • harshness
  • harshness's

Hyponyms for the word harshness

• • bloodthirstiness
  • brutality
  • ferociousness
  • gruffness
  • hoarseness
  • huskiness
  • murderousness
  • savageness
  • savagery
  • viciousness

Hypernyms for the word harshness

• • malevolence
  • malevolency
  • malice
  • quality
  • raggedness
  • roughness
  • sternness
  • strictness
  • timber
  • timbre
  • tone
  • unpleasantness

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