HARSHNESS Synonyms

• something hard to endure

• the quality of being valid and rigorous

• excessive sternness

• a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven

• the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses

• an unpolished unrefined quality

• used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather

• rowdy behavior

• the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion

• harsh or severe speech or behavior

• used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

• something hard to endure

• extreme plainness

• excessive sternness

• the trait of extreme cruelty

• a brutal barbarous savage act

• the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions

• the quality of being sharply disagreeable

• the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

• the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale

• a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering

• devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness

• the quality of being difficult to do

• excessive sternness

• weather unsuitable for outdoor activities

• excessive sternness

• something hard to endure

• excessive sternness

• the quality of being valid and rigorous

• something hard to endure

• excessive sternness

• something hard to endure

• excessive sternness

• the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions

• used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

• something hard to endure

• extreme plainness

• excessive sternness

• the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend

• the property of moving with pain or difficulty

• firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action

• the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

• excessive sternness