LENITIES Antonyms

• 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

• the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending

• the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe

• the property of being big and strong

• the quality of being topologically uneven

• the quality of being difficult to do

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

• something hard to endure

• extreme plainness

• excessive sternness

• a quick and penetrating intelligence

• the attribute of urgency in tone of voice

• a strong odor or taste property

• the quality of being keenly and painfully felt

• thinness of edge or fineness of point

• the quality of being sharp and clear

• harshness of manner

• the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding

• uncompromising resolution

• conscientious attention to rules and details

• uncompromising resolution

• a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit

• conscientious attention to rules and details