EMOLLIENCE Antonyms

• devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness

• language or humor that is down-to-earth

• the quality of being composed of relatively large particles

• looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)

• the quality of lacking taste and refinement

• 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

• the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions

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

• the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

• excessive sternness

• something that causes irritation and annoyance

• 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 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

• lack of sympathy