Synonyms for Roughness

Synonyms for "roughness" (257 found)

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nastiness nondevelopment nonuniformity obscenity overcast oversimplicity oversimplification patchiness piquancy pitilessness pitting pocket poignancy point pompousness ponderousness poor diction pungency raspiness raucity rawness reductionism ribaldry rigor rowdiness rudeness savagery scrapiness scratchiness sesquipedalianism sesquipedality severity sharpness shortness simplism slipshod construction soup sourness space spasticity sporadicity sporadicness spottiness stagger sternness stertorousness stiltedness sting stratosphere stridency stringency substratosphere surliness tail wind tartness tastelessness teeth terrorism the rough thickness throatiness tooth trenchancy tropopause troposphere trough truculence turbulence turgidity ugliness uncertainty uncouthness uncultivation undevelopment uneuphoniousness unevenness unfinish unfinishedness unfledgedness ungentleness ungracefulness unmethodicalness unpredictability unrefinement unripeness unseemliness unsteadiness unsystematicness unwieldiness vandalism variability vehemence venom viciousness violence virulence visibility visibility zero vulgarism vulgarity whimsicality wobble

Noun(6 words)

pitting raggedness rough water roughage rowdiness rowdyism

Related word relations

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More general

9 entries

corroding corrosion disorder erosion inelegance intensification storminess texture unpleasantness

Antonyms

2 entries

smoothness

Synonyms

5 entries

choppiness crudeness harshness pitting rowdiness

derived

4 entries

macroroughness microroughness nanoroughness roughness length

derived from

1 entries

rough

is a

2 entries

intensification texture

related to

2 entries

coarseness rough

Translations

25 translations across 16 languages.

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Ancient Greek

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τραχύτης noun (the property of being rough)

Bikol Central

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ragkot noun (the property of being rough)

Bulgarian

3 entries

грапавина noun (the property of being rough)
грапавост noun (the property of being rough)
неравност noun (the property of being rough)

Catalan

3 entries

aspredat noun (the property of being rough)
aspresa noun (the property of being rough)
aspror noun (the property of being rough)

Czech

1 entries

hrubost noun (the property of being rough)

Dutch

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ruwheid noun (the property of being rough)

Esperanto

1 entries

maltrankvileco noun (the property of being rough)

German

2 entries

Grobheit noun (the property of being rough)
Rauheit noun (the property of being rough)

Hindi

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रूखापन noun (the property of being rough)

Latin

1 entries

asperitās noun (the property of being rough)

Latvian

4 entries

negludums noun (the property of being rough)
raupjums noun (the property of being rough)
rupjums noun (the property of being rough)
rupjība noun (the property of being rough)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

بیاغیلق noun (the property of being rough)

Polish

1 entries

chropowatość noun (the property of being rough)

Romanian

2 entries

asperitate noun (the property of being rough)
asprime noun (the property of being rough)

Russian

1 entries

шерохова́тость noun (the property of being rough)

Spanish

1 entries

aspereza noun (the property of being rough)

Sample sentences

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In materials science, asperity refers to the unevenness, roughness or ruggedness of a material.

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The roughness of the road made me wonder if my car would fall apart.

Source: wiktionary

A variety of suitable methods for surface inspection are available to detect topographical defects induced by surface roughnesses such as scratches, digs, inclusions and spatters.

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With this latter implement, the corn stalk fodder, shucks, oats, hay and other "roughness" may be finely cut up[…]

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