Asperity Definition

ă-spĕrĭ-tē
asperities
noun
asperities
Roughness or harshness, as of surface, sound, or climate.
The asperity of northern winters.
American Heritage
Roughness or harshness, as of surface, sound, weather, etc. or of circumstances.
Webster's New World
Severity; rigor.
American Heritage
Harshness or sharpness of temper.
Webster's New World
A slight projection from a surface; a point or bump.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Asperity

Noun

Singular:
asperity
Plural:
asperities

Origin of Asperity

  • Middle English asperite from Old French asprete from Latin asperitās from asper rough

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French asprete, from Latin asperitatem, from asper (“rough”).

    From Wiktionary

Asperity Sentence Examples

  • Bert adds the asperity of his Scottish voice to a lilting, traditional ballad called " House Carpenter " .

  • His policy had aroused German jealousy, which became evident in the asperity with which the question of Morocco was handled in Berlin.

  • The discontented condition of Upper Canada drew him into politics., and on the 18th of May 1824 he published at Queenston the first number of the Colonial Advocate, in which the ruling oligarchy was attacked with great asperity.

  • But after his stay at Malta, Coleridge announced to his friends that he had given up his "Socinianism" (of which ever afterwards he spoke with asperity), professing a return to Christian faith, though still putting on it a mystical construction, as when he told Crabb Robinson that "Jesus Christ was a Platonic philosopher."

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Words Starting With

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Words Starting With A and Ending With Y

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