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Harshness   /hˈɑrʃnəs/   Listen
Harshness

noun
1.
The roughness of a substance that causes abrasions.  Synonyms: abrasiveness, scratchiness.
2.
The quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses.  Synonym: roughness.
3.
The quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance.  Synonyms: cruelness, cruelty.
4.
Excessive sternness.  Synonyms: hardness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness.  "The harshness of his punishment was inhuman" , "The rigors of boot camp"





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"Harshness" Quotes from Famous Books



... still looking at her, carried away in spite of her harshness, and he felt seized with a brutal desire, ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) - Boule de Suif and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
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... him!" screamed Mrs. Mumpson. "If we save his house he will relent. Gratitude will overwhelm him. So far from turning us away, he will sue, he will plead for forgiveness for his former harshness; his home saved will be our home won. Just put our things in the trunk first. Perhaps the house can't be saved, and you know we must save OUR things. Help me, quick! There, there; now, now"—both were sneezing and choking in a half-strangled manner. "Now let me lock it; my hand trembles so; ...
— He Fell in Love with His Wife • Edward P. Roe
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... parted her heart from his. Therefore at that moment he searched for accusations against her, and found a bitter-tasting comfort in every offence that she had given him, and made treasure of any scornful speech, rescuing himself from the extreme of foolishness by such excuse as harshness might afford. Now Barbara Quinton had told Mistress Nell that I was forward for my station. What man could, what man would, lay bare his heart to a lady who held him to ...
— Simon Dale • Anthony Hope
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... recently. This was the long lease acquired by a rich American of enormous areas which he converted into a single deer forest, evicting certain crofters in the process with what was said to have been signal harshness. ...
— Memoirs of Life and Literature • W. H. Mallock
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... then he sulked. It was war between them. At times he was the image of his Aunt Sophia. He would not leave the subject alone; but he would not listen to Constance's reasoning. He openly accused her of harshness. He asked her how she could expect him to get on if she thwarted him in his most earnest desires. He pointed to other boys ...
— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett
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