About The Word Asperity
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Asperity
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What's The Definition Of Asperity?
[n] harshness of manner
[n] something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" Synonyms | Synonyms for Asperity: grimness | hardship | rigor | rigorousness | rigour | severity | sharpness Related Terms | Find terms related to Asperity: acerbity | acid | acidity | acidness | acidulousness | acridity | acrimony | anger | animosity | astringency | austerity | bad humor | bad temper | bile | biliousness | bitingness | bitter resentment | bitterness | bitterness of spirit | bumpiness | causticity | causticness | choler | choppiness | corrosiveness | cragginess | cuttingness | discontent | edge | gall | gnashing of teeth | granulation | grimness | hard feelings | hardness | hardship | harshness | heartburning | hispidity | ill humor | ill nature | ill temper | incisiveness | inclemency | inequality | irregularity | irritability | jaggedness | joltiness | keenness | mordacity | mordancy | nonuniformity | piercingness | piquancy | poignancy | pungency | raggedness | rancor | rankling | rigor | rough air | roughness | ruggedness | rugosity | scraggliness | severity | sharpness | slow burn | snappishness | soreness | sourness | spleen | stabbingness | stringency | tartness | tooth | trenchancy | turbulence | unevenness | unsmoothness | ununiformity | vicissitude | virulence | waspishness See Also | difficultness | difficulty | ill nature Asperity In Webster's Dictionary \As*per"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Asperities}. [L. asperitas, fr.
asper rough: cf. F. asp['e]rit['e].]
1. Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to
{smoothness}. ``The asperities of dry bodies.'' --Boyle.
2. Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates
upon the ear; raucity.
3. Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness.
4. Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity;
crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to {mildness}.
``Asperity of character.'' --Landor.
It is no very cynical asperity not to confess
obligations where no benefit has been received.
--Johnson.
5. Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty.
The acclivities and asperities of duty. --Barrow.
Syn: Acrimony; moroseness; crabbedness; harshness; sourness;
tartness. See {Acrimony}.
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