HARSHNESS

• (noun) excessive sternness

  "severity of character", "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman", "the rigors of boot camp"

  synonyms : hardness , inclemency , rigor , rigorousness , rigour , rigourousness , severeness , severity , stiffness

• (noun) the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

  synonyms : cruelness , cruelty

• (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions

  synonyms : abrasiveness , scratchiness

• (noun) the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses

  synonyms : roughness

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