All harshness synonyms

noun harshness

• cruelty — Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
• brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
• anger — Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
• tyranny — arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority. Synonyms: despotism, absolutism, dictatorship.
• acerbity — Acerbity is a kind of bitter, critical humour.
• sternness — firm, strict, or uncompromising: stern discipline.
• severity — harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
• austerity — Austerity is a situation in which people's living standards are reduced because of economic difficulties.
• ruggedness — having a roughly broken, rocky, hilly, or jagged surface: rugged ground.
• bleakness — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
• stark — sheer, utter, downright, or complete: stark madness.
• roughness — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
• callousness — made hard; hardened.
• ruthless — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
• strictness — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
• unkindness — lacking in kindness or mercy; severe.
• insensitivity — deficient in human sensibility, acuteness of feeling, or consideration; unfeeling; callous: an insensitive person.
• crudity — the condition or quality of being crude