noun. The quality or condition of being harsh.

noun. Synonyms Asperity, etc. (see acrimony); austerity, churlishness, rigor, roughness, bluntness, hardness, sternness, cruelty, rudeness; discordance, dissonance.

noun. The quality or state of being harsh.

noun. The quality of being harsh.

noun. excessive sternness

noun. the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions

noun. the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses

noun. the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

"And for the future, he declares, the harshness is again inevitable: though the writer admits that social progress (including of course female suffrage, which he does not mention) is largely due to peace."

raggedness  roughness  sternness  strictness  

abruptness  arrogance  barbarity  bitterness  carelessness  

Babel  Gothicism  Spartanism  abominability  abruptness