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: hardness, ruggedness
Definition: the quality of being difficult to do
Usage: he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness; the ruggedness of his exams caused half the class to fail
Similar words: difficultness, difficulty
Definition: the quality of being difficult
Usage: they agreed about the difficulty of the climb
Synonyms: unfeelingness, insensibility, hardness, callosity, callousness
Definition: devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness
Similar words: insensitiveness, insensitivity
Definition: the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
Synonyms: hardness
Definition: a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering
Usage: the costs of reducing hardness depend on the relative amounts of calcium and magnesium compounds that are present
Similar words: quality
Definition: an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
Usage: the quality of mercy is not strained--Shakespeare
Synonyms: hardness
Definition: the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale
Similar words: eubstance, consistence, consistency, body
Definition: the property of holding together and retaining its shape
Usage: wool has more body than rayon; when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake