harshness

harshness is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The quality or state of being harsh. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The quality or state of being harsh.
2. noun. excessive sternness

   "severity of character"

   "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"

   Synonyms: hardness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness

3. noun. the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

   Synonyms: cruelness, cruelty

4. noun. the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions

   Synonyms: abrasiveness, scratchiness

5. noun. the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses

   Synonyms: roughness

Synonyms

hardness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness, cruelness, cruelty, abrasiveness, scratchiness, roughness

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