asperity
1. something hard to endure - the asperity of northern winters • Syn: grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness • Derivationally related forms: severe (for: severeness), grim (for: grimness) • Hypernyms: difficulty, difficultness • Hyponyms: sternness 2. harshness of manner • Syn: sharpness • Ant: dullness (for: sharpness) • Derivationally related forms: sharp (for: sharpness) • Hypernyms: ill nature
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