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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HARSHNESS

n.Roughness to the touch; opposed to softness and smoothness. 1. Sourness; austereness; as the harshness of fruit.
2. Roughness to the ear; as the harshness of sound or of a voice, or of verse.
'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense,
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
3. Roughness of temper; moroseness; crabbedness; peevishness.
4. Roughness in manner or words; severity; as the harshness of reproof.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HARSHNESS

HARSHNESS Harsh "ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality or state of being harsh. O, she is Ten times more gentle than her father 's crabbed, And he's composed of harshness. Shak. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Pope.

 

Syn. -- Acrimony; roughness; sternness; asperity; tartness. See Acrimony.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

harshness

h á rsh ness 名詞 U 1 (状況 気候などの )厳しさ .2 (行為 話しぶりなどの )無情 (さ ), 無慈悲 .3 (声 音などの )不快さ, 粗さ .

 

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