Synonyms: 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
Similar words: sternness, strictness
Definition: uncompromising resolution
Synonyms: cruelness, cruelty, harshness
Definition: the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
Similar words: malevolence, malevolency, malice
Definition: the quality of threatening evil
Synonyms: harshness, abrasiveness, scratchiness
Definition: the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions
Similar words: roughness, raggedness
Definition: a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
Synonyms: harshness, roughness
Definition: the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses
Similar words: unpleasantness
Definition: the quality of giving displeasure
Usage: the recent unpleasantness of the weather