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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crudity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, anger, brutality, cruelty, sternness, tyranny |
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| Main Entry: | acrimony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nasty behavior, speech |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, animosity, antipathy, asperity, astringency, belligerence, bitterness, churlishness, crankiness, harshness, ill will, irascibility, malevolence, malice, mordancy, peevishness, rancor, rudeness, sarcasm, spite, tartness, unkindness, virulence |
| Antonyms: | civility, courtesy, diplomacy, flattery, kindness, politeness, sweetness |
| Main Entry: | austerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, asperity, astringence, coldness, exactingness, exactness, formality, formalness, gravity, grimness, hardness, harshness, inclemency, inflexibility, obduracy, rigidity, rigor, seriousness, solemnity, sternness, stiffness, strictness, stringency |
| Antonyms: | blandness, calmness, gentility, meekness, mildness |
| Main Entry: | bitterness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agony |
| Synonyms: | acrimoniousness, anguish, asperity, distress, grievousness, harshness, hostility, mordancy, pain, painfulness, sarcasm, venom, virulence |
| Antonyms: | contentment, geniality, happiness, sweetness |
| Main Entry: | coarseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rudeness, vulgarity |
| Synonyms: | bawdiness, boorishness, callousness, crassness, crudity, earthiness, harshness, indelicacy, offensiveness, poor taste, rawness, ribaldry, roughness, smut, smuttiness, uncouthness, unevenness, unrefinement |
| Antonyms: | delicacy, manners, politeness, refinement, sophistication |
| Main Entry: | discord |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | noise |
| Synonyms: | cacophony, clamor, clinker, din, disharmony, dissonance, harshness, jangle, jarring, racket, sour note, tumult |
| Antonyms: | harmoniousness, harmony |
| Main Entry: | dissonance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | noise, discord |
| Synonyms: | cacophony, harshness, jangle, jarring, unmelodiousness |
| Antonyms: | accord, consonance, harmony, peacefulness, resonance |
| Main Entry: | oppression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misery, hardship |
| Synonyms: | abuse, abusiveness, autocracy, brutality, calamity, coercion, compulsion, conquering, control, cruelty, despotism, dictatorship, domination, fascism, force, forcibleness, hardness, harshness, injury, injustice, iron hand, maltreatment, martial law, overthrowing, persecution, severity, subduing, subjection, suffering, torment, tyrrany |
| Antonyms: | cheer, delight, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | rancor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bitterness, hatefulness |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bile, dudgeon, enmity, grudge, hardness of heart, harshness, hate, hatred, hostility, ill feeling, ill will, malevolence, malice, malignity, mordacity, pique, resentfulness, resentment, retaliation, revengefulness, ruthlessness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, umbrage, uncharitableness, unfriendliness, variance, vengeance, vengefulness, venom, vindictiveness, virulence |
| Antonyms: | kindness, love, respect, sympathy |
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