asperity :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

sharpness

n. harshness of manner

severity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, rigorousness

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

bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice

n. a rough and bitter manner

abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness, shortness

n. an abrupt discourteous manner

irony, sarcasm, 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

spleen, irascibility, quick temper, short temper

n. a feeling of resentful anger

severity, harshness, inclemency

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

sternness, strictness

n. uncompromising resolution

ordeal

n. a severe or trying experience

hindrance, handicap, 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, harshness, cruelness

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

inflexibility, rigidity

n. the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe

dullness, bluntness, dulness

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

ease, simplicity, easiness

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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