hardness
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6.3
- noun
- /ˈhɑrdnəs/
:
insensibilidad
- There's a hardness to him.
- hardness of heart
What the revolution demanded was realism, hardness, absolute steely resolve.
- What the revolution demanded was realism, hardness, absolute steely resolve.
- You can still give off hardness, you can still be cold, you can still have walls up.
- So my only response to that was more hardness, you know, just just being more like, yeah, this is war.
- But at times my hardness turned into unfairness and that I was upset by and I'd, I'd usually recognise it afterwards.
Examples
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Sextus studied him for a long moment, alarmed by the hardness in the younger man's face, the determined set of his jaw.
Fiction book (1998) -
That much of what, you know, I saw in black America as as a young person and construed as anger and as hardness as toughness was in fact deep, deep fear.
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As a whole, there was this hardness about the place.
Fiction book (1994) -
You can still give off hardness, you can still be cold, you can still have walls up.
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Whatever good he might do was all useless in the end if he could feel such hardness toward one suffering human being.
Fiction book (1998) -
I was struck by the hardness on most of the people's faces.
Blog text (34) -
Her sudden hardness leaves him speechless as they go their separate ways.
Fiction book (1999) -
So you had all made a comment in your own way about my capriciousness and hardness to read, and I'm not a criminal.
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What the revolution demanded was realism, hardness, absolute steely resolve.
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His hardness made it difficult for anyone to approach him with their problems.
Synonyms
11
6.4
Being very strict and harsh when judging or punishing people
6
7.4
A lack of concern for other people's feelings or suffering
6
4.1
Very severe or unkind treatment that causes harm
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7.2
The quality of being very strict in rules or discipline that allows little freedom
1
5.1
A strict, serious attitude that does not allow bad behavior
1
5.3
A strict way of acting or thinking that does not change
1
8.2
A harsh, unkind way of speaking or acting
1
3.9
A harsh quality in a voice or behavior that feels severe
1
3.5
A very strong feeling of pain or sadness that hurts deeply
A lack of care or sympathy
To not care about other people's feelings or needs
A lack of pity or kindness toward other people
A lack of feeling or care for other people's pain
A hard, cold way of acting that shows no emotion
Being very strict and harsh toward other people
Being very strict and careful about rules or details
Being very strict about rules and making people follow them
Antonyms
How Harsh
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word hardness comes from hard meaning 'not soft' and the ending -ness meaning 'state'. That is why a person's hardness describes a 'not soft' way of behaving — a lack of warmth or sympathy.