asperity

Other forms of asperity

plural

asperities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about asperity

What does asperity mean?

asperity means "something hard to endure". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in asperity?

asperity has 4 syllables: a-sper-i-ty. The stress falls on "sper". In IPA it is /əˈspɛɹɪti/.

What is another word for asperity?

Close synonyms include grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is asperity a common word?

asperity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.