Main entry: rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, inclemency, hardness, harshness, stiffness
Definition: excessive sternness
Usage: severity of character; the harshness of his punishment was inhuman; the rigors of boot camp
Main entry: cruelness, cruelty, harshness
Definition: the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
Main entry: harshness, abrasiveness, scratchiness
Definition: the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions
Main entry: harshness, roughness
Definition: the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses