hardness

Those atoms and the way they are arranged affect a polymer’s properties, such as its hardness or melting temperature.

Where some hear hardness in hip-hop, Tupac heard transformation, evolution.

His district, just south of Washington DC was among the hardness hit by the trembler.

When she felt his hardness,” however, “the feelings evaporated.

I portray Mecca as it really was, which means in all its hardness and brutality.

It is of an exceedingly hard, densely compact nature; from its hardness difficult to work, but susceptible of a very high polish.

All things are come upon thee, because of the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy enchanters.

We have learned so much lately about self-denial, and crossing one's own inclinations, and enduring hardness.

A man from whom everything is torn at one blow; a man of not very strong character, not accustomed to endure hardness.

But those who loved him best saw the stony hardness of his face, beyond anything that came after the great stroke at St. Julien.