harshness

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English

Etymology

From Middle English harsknes; equivalent to harsh +‎ -ness.

Noun

harshness (countable and uncountable, plural harshnesses)

  1. The quality of being harsh.
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      She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

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