harshnessn.
/ˈhɑːʃnɪs/ The quality of being harsh; unpleasant roughness, discordance, severity, rigour, etc.: see the adjective.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harshness > [noun]
unkindshipa1393
unmeeknessa1425
unmildnessc1460
ingratitude1477
harshnessc1480
ingratuity1528
ungentleness1548
untendernessa1658
bad blood1664
unbenevolence1720
the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [noun] > astringency
stypticityc1400
ponticity?a1425
stypticnessc1425
harshnessc1480
stypticalness1528
austerity1634
restringency1659
austereness1668
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > [noun]
rethenesseOE
grimness971
sternhead1297
sharpnessa1325
reddoura1375
sternness1382
fiercenessc1384
sturdinessc1384
duressc1400
fellnessc1410
austeritya1425
harshnessc1480
roughness1530
severity1530
durity1543
ungentleness1548
severeness1579
ruggedness1638
atrocity1641
austereness1646
piquancya1677
Draconianism1819
astringency1823
Draconism1832
starkness1884
the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [noun] > inexorableness
harshnessc1480
inexorability1606
unexorableness1611
inexorableness1622
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [noun]
harshnessc1480
dissonance1598
raucedity1599
raucity1607
untunableness1611
disharmony1656
asperity1664
raucidity1669
inharmoniousness1768
tunelessness1881
untunefulness1881
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun] > lack of euphony
harshnessc1480
teretism1598
cacophony1656
tautophony1791
c1480 (a1400) St. Agnes 122 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 349 With harsknes he can hir assalȝe.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 15 To avoyde all maner harshenesse..whan many consonantes come betwene the vowelles.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 86 Hartis tung..hath a byndyng taste with an harrishnes.
1695 J. Addison tr. Virgil Fourth Georgic iv, in Wks. (1721) I. 21 Luscious sweets, that..Correct the harshness of the racy juice.
a1782 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric xviii. 18 Harshness arises from unusual words; from forced inversions..and too much neglect of smoothness and ease.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 39 My needful seeming harshness, pardon.
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