asperity
noun
harshness or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner; severity; acrimony.
asperities
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pluralof asperity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Compared to smooth faults, injection-induced slip on rough faults produces spatially localized clusters of Acoustic Emissions occurring around highly stressed asperities.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024
Eco mingled with Milanese avant-garde writers, musicians and painters, and developed a love for late James Joyce, the atonal asperities of Karlheinz Stockhausen and the impenetrable symbolist verse of late Mallarmé.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2016
Dawkins’s bracing asperities are now routinely met in kind: ‘Puffed up, self-regarding, vain, prickly and militant’ was one columnist’s string of adjectives for him.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2015
During such an event, the 1938 asperities and the M7.9 aftershock rupture area could experience much greater slip than has been documented for previous events, similar to what just occurred offshore Miyagi.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 16, 2011
What wonderful things little attentions are--how they smooth down our asperities and soften us to one another!
From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
