- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
|part of speech:
||harshness or roughness, esp. of tone or manner.
He was bothered less by her criticism than by the asperity with which it was delivered.
- acerbity, harshness
- amenity, gentleness
- similar words:
- acrimony, astringency, causticity, corrosiveness, mordancy, roughness, severity, sharpness