Asperity

Definition: Asperity

Asperity

Noun

1. Something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters".

2. Harshness of manner.

Date "asperity" was first used: 12th century. (references)

Etymology: Asperity \As*per"i*ty\, noun; plural Asperities. [Latin asperitas, from asper rough: compare to French asp['e]rit['e].]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Geological	An area on a fault that is stuck. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Asperity

Synonyms: grimness (n), hardship (n), rigor (n), rigorousness (n), rigour (n), severity (n), sharpness (n). (additional references)

Antonym: dullness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discourtesy	Churlishness; Adjective: spinosity, perversity; moroseness; (sullenness) a. sternness; Adjective: austerity; moodishness, captiousness; cynicism; tartness; Adjective: acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity.
Irascibility	Ill humor; (sullenness) a; asperity; churlishness; (discourtesy).
Resentment	Pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall; heart-burning, heart-swelling; rankling.
Roughness	Noun: roughness; Adjective: tooth, grain, texture, ripple; asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity; arborescence; pilosity.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Asperity

English words defined with "asperity": Acrimoniousness, Asperities ♦ grimness ♦ hardship ♦ rigor, rigorousness, rigour ♦ severity. (references)

"Asperity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Asperity" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	25	69,787

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Language		Translations for "asperity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ashpërsi (acrimony, austerity, coarseness, dourness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorism, rigour, roughness, savagery, severity, sharpness, toughness, tyranny), vrazhdësi (abruptness, barbarity, brutality, clownery, crudity, harshness, incivility, roughness, rudeness, rusticity, truculence). (various references)

Arabic		‏قسوة (austerity, cruelty, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, inexorability, inhumanity, mercilessness, pitilessness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, ruggedness, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency, violence), ‏حدة (acridity, acrimony, acuity, acuteness, edge, great rage, intensification, intensity, keenness, loneness, paroxysmal, piquancy, poignancy, pungency, ruggedness, severity, sharpness, solitariness, solitude, temper, vehemence), ‏خشونة (bad manners, coarseness, crudeness, grossness, harshness, roughness, rudeness, scabrousness, severity, stringency, toughness, vulgarity). (various references)

Bulgarian		суровост (austerity, hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigour, roughness, rudeness, severity), рязкост (brusqueness, curtness, hardness, rapidity, stridency, verjuice), грубост (barbarity, broadness, callosity, crudity, curtness, foulness, harshness, incivility, indelicacy, roughness, rudeness, toughness, truculence), неравност (accident, bump, inequality, irregularity, rough, roughness, unevenness), неблагозвучност (cacophony). (various references)

Czech		drsnost (harshness, inclemency, roughness). (various references)

Danish		asperitas unguium (asperity of nail), negle-ruhed (asperity of nail). (various references)

Dutch		asperitas unguium (asperity of nail). (various references)

French		aspérité. (various references)

German		Schroffheit (abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness, hardness, harshness, sharpness, shortness, steepness, tartness), Schärfe (abrasiveness, acerbity, acridity, acuteness, bitterness, causticity, clarity, clearness, ferocity, fierceness, fineness, focus, harshness, heat, hotness, incisiveness, keenness, lash, nicety, pepperiness, poignancy, pungence, pungency, savageness, severeness, severity, sharpness, shrewdness, shrillness, sting, stridence, stridency, stringency, tartness, tightness, toughness, trenchancy, vehemence, violence, virulence). (various references)

Greek		οξύτητα (acerbity, acidity, acuteness, keenness, pungency, sharpness, shrillness, smartness, trenchancy, trenchantness). (various references)

Hebrew		קשיות (hardness, severity, stiffness). (various references)

Hungarian		keménység (crustiness, firmness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigidness, rigour, severity, sternness, stiffness, substance), darabosság. (various references)

Italian		asperit� (abruptness, bump, gruffness, roughness, rub, unevenness). (various references)

Manx		garrooid (chop on water, choppiness, coarseness, crudeness, grossness, harshness, huskiness, rawness, roughage, roughness, rudeness, ruggedness, scragginess, uncouthness, unevenness of land), gargid (acridity, acrimoniousness, acrimony, austerity, brusqueness, harshness, harshness of wine, pungency, tartness), barbid. (various references)

Pig Latin		asperityay

Portuguese		aspereza (abruptness, acerbity, harshness, poignancy, roughness, rub), severidade (austerity, exactness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorism, rigour, roughness, severity, stringency), rudeza (abruptness, acrimony, disrespect, rough, rudeness, rusticity), rispidez (bad blood), rigor (accuracy, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, severity, stringency). (various references)

Romanian		asprime (abruptness, acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, callosity, callousness, coarseness, gruffness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, roughness, rudeness, severity, sharpness, sternness, stringency), asperitate (crabbedness, harshness, roughness, ruggedness), vârtoşie (force, hardness, harshness, roughness, vigor, vigour), severitate (harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, rudeness, ruggedness, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency), potrivnicii, loc aspru, duritate (callousness, crustiness, dourness, hardness, harshness, sternness). (various references)

Russian		грубость (broadness, callousness, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, discourtesy, harshness, ill breeding, ribaldry, roughness, rudeness, ruffianism, scurrility, truculence). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oporost (acerbity, pungency, savoury, tartness), oštrina (acrimony, acuity, keenness, sharpness), hrapavost (harshness, roughness). (various references)

Spanish		aspereza (abruptness, acerbity, acridness, astringence, astringences, harshness, rawness, roughness, scragginess, sharpness, sourness, surliness, topmast). (various references)

Swedish		strävhet (roughness), stränghet (austerity, hardness, inclemency, rigidity, rigour, severity, stringency), skärpa (acerbity, acridity, acridness, acrimony, acuity, acuteness, definition, edge, exactness, give an edge to, increase, poignancy, pungency, put an edge on, severity, sharpen, sharpness, stiffen, sting, strengthen, whet), kärvhet (acerbity, harshest, harshness), hemsökelse (affliction, infestation, infliction, plague, scourge, visitation). (various references)

Turkish		sertlik (austerity, bitterness, curtness, fierceness, firmness, hardness, harshness, headiness, inclemency, intemperance, kick, pungency, rigidity, rigor, rigour, severity, sharpness, solidity, starch, sternness, stiffness, stoniness, strength, strictness, stringency, tartness, toughness, vehemence, wiriness), kabalık (abruptness, barbarism, barbarity, boorishness, brusqueness, coarseness, crassness, crudeness, crudity, discourtesy, disrespect, earthiness, gall, gothicism, gruffness, harshness, impolite behaviour, impoliteness, incivility, indelicacy, inelegance, loutishness, rankness, roughness, rudeness, rusticity, shortness, vulgarism, vulgarity), kaba söz (vulgar expression, vulgarity), haşinlik (austerity, harshness, roughness, rudeness). (various references)

Ukrainian		суворість (astringency, austerity, cruelty, hardness, inclemency, rigidity, rigor, rigour, rudeness, strictness, stringency), різкість (abruptness, acerbity, acridity, acuteness, poignancy, raucity, sharpness), шорсткість (roughness), шершавість (shagginess), грубість (abruptness, barbarism, barbarity, broadness, brutality, callousness, clumsiness, coarseness, crudity, harshness, roughness, rusticity, shagginess, truculence), нерівність (imparity, inequality, odds, prominence, prominency, roughness), жорстокість (atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, ferociousness, ferocity, harshness, savagery, severity), брутальність (harshness, rudeness). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính khắc nghiệt (harshness), tính cộc cằn sự khó chịu, sự xù xì (roughness), mấu g�" ghề. (various references)

Welsh		llymder (bareness, keenness, poverty, severity, sharpness), gerwindeb (roughness, severity). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	asperitas. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Asperity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ansperto, aperity, appereth, asparity, aspartyl, aspenity, aspert, asterite, Azpeitia. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "asperity" (pronounced 'As*per"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-p-r-s-t-y"
	-1 letter: parties, pastier, piaster, piastre, pirates, pyrites, traipse.
	-2 letters: airest, aspire, esprit, estray, paries, parity, paster, pastie, pastry, paters, payers, petsai, pietas, pirate, praise, prates, priest, pyrite, rapist, repast, repays, ripest, satire, spirea, sprite, stayer, striae, stripe, stripy, tapers, tapirs, terais, trapes, tripes, typier, yarest.
	-3 letters: airts, apers, apery, apres, apter, arise, artsy, asper.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-p-r-s-t-y"
	+2 letters: baptistery, depositary, epistolary, interplays, panegyrist, pityriases, sympatries.
	+3 letters: antileprosy, antipyreses, antipyresis, antipyrines, disparately, hyperstatic, hypertonias, panegyrists, personality, predynastic, presynaptic, respiratory, specularity, stipendiary, sympathizer, tapestrying, tryptamines.
	+4 letters: antipyretics, arsenopyrite, attorneyship, cryptomerias, discrepantly, dispensatory, disreputably, hydropathies, hyperactives, hyperplastic, hyperrealist, hypothermias, perspicacity, perspiratory, phylacteries, platyrrhines, plebiscitary, praiseworthy, presbyterial, presbyterian, psychiatries, pyrargyrites, separability, supergravity, superquality, sympathizers, typographies.
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