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asperity
[ uh-sper-i-tee ]
noun
- harshness or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner; severity; acrimony:
The cause of her anger did not warrant such asperity.
Synonyms: , ,
Antonyms: ,
- hardship; difficulty; rigor:
the asperities of polar weather.
- roughness of surface; unevenness.
- something rough or harsh.
asperity
/ æˈ²õ±èÉ›°ùɪ³Ùɪ /
noun
- roughness or sharpness of temper
- roughness or harshness of a surface, sound, taste, etc
- a condition hard to endure; affliction
- physics the elastically compressed region of contact between two surfaces caused by the normal force
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of asperity1
Example Sentences
Compared to smooth faults, injection-induced slip on rough faults produces spatially localized clusters of Acoustic Emissions occurring around highly stressed asperities.
On a re-read, Orwell’s narrative holds up, in large part due to the asperity of the prose and the prescient description of how fascism can creep into any society that takes freedom for granted.
She mentions, with some asperity, a phone call from New York when “Where Is the Voice Coming From?†appeared in The New Yorker in 1963.
Arch, cracking with energetic, even contemptuous asperity, it is a world apart from “Everybody.â€
More notable is the specificity of his satire—he has a degree in agronomy—and the seriousness of his engagement with the economic asperities of provincial France in the era of the gilets jaunes.
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