asperity

Meaning of asperity

noun
  1. Roughness as of stone or weather.
    the asperity of Maine's winter
  2. Harshness, as of temper.
  3. Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
  4. A part of a geological fault line that does not move.
    Earthquakes begin and end at asperities.

Information about asperity

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of asperity is: asperities.
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Hyphenation of asperity

as-per-ity

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
  • asperity is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

asperity synonyms

Meaning grimness:

grimness, hardship, rigor, severity, severeness, rigorousness

Meaning sharpness:

sharpness

Words that rhyme with asperity

Charity, Colinearity, Hyposmolarity, Sharity, Solidarity, acicularity, amarity, angularity, annularity, apolarity, avascularity, avuncularity, barbarity, binocularity, bipolarity, capillarity, carity, cellularity, charity, circularity, clarity, cocircularity, colinearity, collinearity, columnarity, complementarity, complimentarity, consimilarity, consularity, contraregularity, coplanarity, corpuscularity, curvilinearity, dextrocularity, discharity, disciplinarity, disparity, dissimilarity, doctrinarity, electrocapillarity, elementarity, equiangularity, exemplarity, familarity, familiarity, fissiparity, gemmiparity, germiparity, globularity, granularity

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