'Hardness' definitions:
Definition of 'hardness'
From: WordNet
noun
The property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale [ant: softness]
noun
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"
noun
Devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness [syn: unfeelingness, callousness, callosity, hardness, insensibility]
noun
The quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness"; "the ruggedness of his exams caused half the class to fail" [syn: hardness, ruggedness]
noun
Excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" [syn: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness]
Definition of 'Hardness'
From: GCIDE
- Hardness \Hard"ness\, n. [AS. heardness.]
- 1. The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively. [1913 Webster]
- The habit of authority also had given his manners some peremptory hardness. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Min.) The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched; -- measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Chem.) The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes. [1913 Webster]
- Note: This quality is caused by the presence of calcium carbonate, causing temporary hardness which can be removed by boiling, or by calcium sulphate, causing permanent hardness which can not be so removed, but may be improved by the addition of sodium carbonate. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hardness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstruseness,
- arduousness,
- armor,
- asperity,
- astringency,
- austerity,
- bothersomeness,
- burdensomeness,
- callosity,
- callousness,
- callus,
- closeness,
- cohesiveness,
- coldbloodedness,
- coldheartedness,
- coldness,
- compactness,
- complexity,
- complication,
- congestedness,
- congestion,
- consistence,
- consistency,
- crabbedness,
- crampedness,
- crowdedness,
- cruelty,
- deepness,
- denseness,
- density,
- difficultness,
- difficulty,
- durability,
- esoterica,
- firmness,
- flintiness,
- formidable defenses,
- fundamentalism,
- gluiness,
- grimness,
- hairiness,
- hard heart,
- hard shell,
- hardenedness,
- hardheartedness,
- hardiness,
- hardness of heart,
- hardship,
- harshness,
- heart of stone,
- heartlessness,
- impenetrability,
- impenitence,
- impenitentness,
- impermeability,
- imperviousness,
- impliability,
- imporosity,
- inclemency,
- incompressibility,
- induration,
- inexorability,
- inexorableness,
- inflexibility,
- infrangibility,
- insensitiveness,
- insensitivity,
- insolence,
- intricacy,
- inuredness,
- irrepentance,
- jammedness,
- knottiness,
- laboriousness,
- lastingness,
- leatherlikeness,
- mercilessness,
- nonrepentance,
- obduracy,
- obdurateness,
- obstinacy,
- onerousness,
- oppressiveness,
- orthodoxy,
- Philistinism,
- pitilessness,
- precisianism,
- profoundness,
- profundity,
- purism,
- puritanism,
- reconditeness,
- relative density,
- relentlessness,
- remorselessness,
- resistance,
- rhinoceros hide,
- rigidity,
- rigidness,
- rigor,
- rigorousness,
- ropiness,
- roughness,
- ruggedness,
- ruthlessness,
- seared conscience,
- severity,
- short shrift,
- solidity,
- solidness,
- soundness,
- specific gravity,
- spissitude,
- stability,
- stamina,
- staunchness,
- sternness,
- stiffness,
- stoniness,
- stoutness,
- strength,
- strenuousness,
- stringency,
- stringiness,
- stubbornness,
- sturdiness,
- temper,
- tenacity,
- tender mercies,
- thick skin,
- thickness,
- toilsomeness,
- toughness,
- troublesomeness,
- unabjectness,
- unbendingness,
- unbreakability,
- unbreakableness,
- uncompassionateness,
- uncompromisingness,
- uncontriteness,
- unfeeling,
- unfeelingness,
- unforgivingness,
- ungentleness,
- unmercifulness,
- unnaturalness,
- unrelentingness,
- unremorsefulness,
- unresponsiveness,
- unsympatheticness,
- unyieldingness,
- vicissitude,
- vigor,
- viscidity,
- viscosity,
- viscousness,
- vitality
Words containing 'Hardness'
- Hard,
- Hard by,
- Hard up,
- Harding,
- Hardly,
- Hards,
- hardly a,
- A hard case,
- Hard and fast,
- Hard cancer,
- Hard case,
- Hard clam,
- Hard coal,
- Hard finish,
- Hard grass,
- Hard lines,
- Hard money,
- Hard multum,
- Hard oyster,
- Hard pan,
- Hard pushed,
- Hard rubber,
- Hard run,
- Hard soap,
- Hard solder,
- Hard steel,
- Hard water,
- Hard wood,
- Harding County,
- Harding, AK,
- Harding, MN,
- Harding, NM,
- Harding, SD,
- Heart hardness,
- In hard condition,
- To go hard with,
- To have hard measure,
- To lie hard,
- To ride hard,
- To run hard,
- die hard,
- hard beech,
- hard candy,
- hard cash,
- hard chancre,
- hard cheese,
- hard cider,
- hard copy,
- hard core,
- hard currency,
- hard disc,
- hard disk,
- hard drink,
- hard drive,
- hard drug,
- hard earned,
- hard feelings,
- hard fern,
- hard fought,
- hard goods,
- hard hat,
- hard job,
- hard knocks,
- hard labor,
- hard lead,
- hard life,
- hard line,
- hard liquor,
- hard news,
- hard palate,
- hard pressed,
- hard put,
- hard right,
- hard rock,
- hard roe,
- hard roll,
- hard rush,
- hard sauce,
- hard sell,
- hard shoulder,
- hard stuff,
- hard surface,
- hard tick,
- hard time,
- hard times,
- hard to please,
- hard wheat,
- hard wired,
- hard worker,
- hard-on,
- harding grass,
- hardly ever,
- president harding,
- strike hard,
- warren harding,
- Hard-favored,
- Hard-favoredness,
- Hard-featured,
- Hard-fisted,
- Hard-handed,
- Hard-headedness,
- Hard-hearted,
- Hard-heartedness,
- Hard-labored,
- Hard-mouthed,
- Hard-shell,
- Hard-tack,
- Hard-visaged,
- Harding County, NM,
- Harding County, SD,
- Helm hard alee,
- Helm hard aport,
- Helm hard astarboard,
- Ni-hard,
- To bear one hard,
- charles hard townes,
- die-hard,
- hard-and-fast,
- hard-baked,
- hard-bitten,
- hard-boiled,
- hard-bound,
- hard-core,
- hard-fought,
- hard-headed,
- hard-hitting,
- hard-line,
- hard-nosed,
- hard-of-hearing,
- hard-pressed,
- hard-shelled,
- hard-surfaced,
- hard-to-please,
- hard-wired,
- hard-won,
- warren gamaliel harding,
- Hard-shelled clam,
- Harding-Birch Lakes,
- Ni-hard iron,
- Scirrhous cancer or Hard cancer,
- hard-boiled egg,
- hard-cooked egg,
- hard-shell clam,
- hard-shell crab,
- hard-skinned puffball,
- Harding-Birch Lakes, AK,
- with hard-shelled nuts yielding a valuable oil,
- arduous backbreaking back-breaking grueling gruelling hard heavy laborious labourious punishing slavish strenuous toilsome