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asperity, sharpness

n. harshness of manner

asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness

n. something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"

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bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice, tartness, thorniness

n. a rough and bitter manner

abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness, shortness

n. an abrupt discourteous manner

sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark

n. witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift

irascibility, short temper, spleen, quick temper

n. a feeling of resentful anger

severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness

n. excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"

ordeal, trial by ordeal

n. a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence

drawback

n. the quality of being a hindrance; "he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan"

handicap

n. advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning

pitch

n. the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration

exactness, exactitude

n. the quality of being exact; "he demanded exactness in all details"; "a man of great exactitude"

cruelty, cruelness, harshness

n. the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness

n. the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe

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dullness, bluntness

n. without sharpness or clearness of edge or point; "the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible"

ease, easiness, simplicity, simpleness

n. freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; "he rose through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into containers for ease of transportation"; "the very easiness of the deed held her back"

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