asperity

Significado (Inglés)

1. The quality of being harsh or severe in the way one speaks or behaves toward people.
2. The quality of being difficult or unpleasant to experience.
3. The quality of having a rough or uneven surface.
4. Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
5. An area that protrudes from a surface.
6. A section of a fault line with high friction, such that there is no movement along this part of the fault except during an earthquake.

Conceptos

aspereza

agudeza

acidez

rigor

rigurosidad

severidad

privación

Sinónimos

roughness

sharpness

severity

ruggedness

grimness

harshness

rigor

rigorousness

rigour

shrillness

smartness

sourness

scragginess

trenchancy

stubbiness

raucity

trenchantness

unkindness

scabrousness

hardship

severeness

seaminess

keenness

rigourousness

truculence

truculency

turbulence

readability

violence

scratchiness

acidity

acuteness

articulation

bitterness

bluffness

brusqueness

callosity

coarseness

curtness

definition

hardheartedness

intelligibility

irregularity

legibility

penetration

piquancy

prominence

pungency

raggedness

rudeness

abrasiveness

shortness

sternness

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/əˈspɛɹɪti/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English asprete, asperite, from Old French aspreté, from Latin asperitās, from asper (“rough”). Doublet of asperitas.