asperity
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French asprete, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin asperitatem, from asper (“rough”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
asperity (countable and uncountable, plural asperities)
- Roughness as of stone or weather.
- the asperity of Maine's winter
- Harshness, as of temper.
- 1878, W. S. Gilbert, H.M.S. Pinafore:
- Go, ribald, get you hence
To your cabin with celerity.
This is the consequence
Of ill-advised asperity!
- Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
- (geology) A part of a geological fault line that does not move.
- Earthquakes begin and end at asperities.
Translations
roughness as of stone
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harshness, as of temper
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something that is harsh and hard to endure
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a part of a geological fault line that does not move
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