harshness

  • 1Harshness — (also called raucousness), in music information retrieval, is a Non Contextual Low Level Audio Descriptors (NLDs) that represents one dimension of the multi dimensional psychoacoustic feature called as musical timbre.Classical timbre’ NLDs are… …

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  • 2Harshness — Harsh ness, n. The quality or state of being harsh. [1913 Webster] O, she is Ten times more gentle than her father s crabbed, And he s composed of harshness. Shak. [1913 Webster] Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, The sound must seem an… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 3harshness — index brutality, cruelty, oppression, rancor, severity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 4harshness — late 14c., from HARSH (Cf. harsh) + NESS (Cf. ness) …

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  • 5harshness — noun The quality of being harsh. 1891 And yet these harshnesses are tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of to… …

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  • 6harshness — harsh ► ADJECTIVE 1) unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses. 2) cruel or severe. 3) (of climate or conditions) difficult to survive in; hostile. DERIVATIVES harshen verb harshly adverb harshness noun. ORIGIN …

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  • 7harshness — noun 1. the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑abrasiveness, ↑scratchiness • Derivationally related forms: ↑scratchy (for: ↑scratchiness), ↑abrasiv …

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  • 8harshness — noun see harsh …

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  • 9harshness — See harshly. * * * …

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  • 10harshness — Synonyms and related words: Babel, Gothicism, Spartanism, abominability, abruptness, acerbity, acidity, acidulousness, acridity, acrimony, acuteness, aggressiveness, animality, aphonia, artificial voice, asperity, astringency, atrocity, austerity …

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