noun
- the quality or state of being harsh; severity, roughness, or cruelty
Usage: plural form of harshness
Examples
- The harshnesses of winter made travel difficult.
- She couldn’t tolerate the harshnesses of military training.
- The desert’s harshnesses tested the explorers’ endurance.
- Critics noted the harshnesses in the new policy.
- The harshnesses of poverty shaped his worldview.
- They discussed the harshnesses of the legal system.