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Meanings of harshness in English

Portuguese
dureza
Catalan
rigor
Spanish
rigurosidad

Excessive sternness.

      dureza
      Portuguese
      crueldade
      Spanish
      crueldad

      The quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance.

            crueldade
            Portuguese
            aspereza
            Spanish
            dureza

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

                  aspereza

                  The roughness of a substance that causes abrasions.

                        Usage of harshness in English
                        1
                        And Edward Newbury in particular was thought to have behaved with harshness.
                        The Coryston Family / A Novel
                        2
                        To judge by the harshness displayed, there was the personal factor, too.
                        Greece and the Allies, 1914-1922
                        3
                        The harshness of the climate did not give husbandry the same chances.
                        The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
                        4
                        There is no harshness in the vast hotels which I have recommended.
                        Yet Again
                        5
                        There was a note of harshness in the voice that answered him.
                        The Snare
                        6
                        This old Frenchman has told the truth in all its naked harshness.
                        The Bastonnais / Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775...
                        7
                        It gave a flavor of strangeness without the harshness of real threat.
                        A Winter Haunting
                        8
                        And he censured the harshness with which the insurgents had been treated.
                        Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, par...
                        9
                        When he went on it was with less harshness in his manner.
                        The Bat
                        10
                        They profess by harshness to have lessened the evil of the world.
                        The Well of Saint Clare
                        11
                        There was never a trace of harshness in his treatment of us.
                        Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
                        12
                        There shall be no harshness; nobody shall suffer more than they deserve.
                        Dawn
                        13
                        He enjoyed the way Pilar recoiled from the harshness of his tone.
                        Ahsoka
                        14
                        His product received none of the harshness of mechanical and mathematical accuracy.
                        Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru
                        15
                        He stopped and squared his shoulders and the harshness left his voice.
                        The Unspeakable Gentleman
                        16
                        In such a mood, it was even easy to excuse his harshness.
                        A Daughter of Fife
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                        Harshness across language varieties
                        United Kingdom
                        Common
                        United States of America
                        Less common