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hardness

English

  1. 🔊 the quality of being difficult to do
    “he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness”
  2. 🔊 a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering
    “the costs of reducing hardness depend on the relative amounts of calcium and magnesium compounds that are present”
  3. 🔊 the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure
  4. 🔊 devoid of passion or feeling
  5. 🔊 excessive sternness
    “severity of character”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 dureza hardness

Similar words

severity severeness harshness rigor rigour rigorousness rigourousness inclemency stiffness ruggedness unfeelingness callousness callosity insensibility philistinism abstruseness arduousness armor asperity astringency austerity bothersomeness burdensomeness callosity