English Dictionary

asperity

IPA（発音記号）

/əˈspɛɹɪti/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

The quality of being harsh or severe in the way one speaks or behaves toward people. / The quality of being difficult or unpleasant to experience. / The quality of having a rough or uneven surface.

日本語の意味

人に対して厳しい、粗暴な態度や言動の性質 / 経験するのが困難または不快なほどの厳しさ / 粗い・不均一な表面の質感・状態

Her asperity during the meeting discouraged anyone from offering constructive criticism.

会議中の彼女の辛辣さが、誰も建設的な批判をすることをためらわせた。

意味（1）

The quality of being harsh or severe in the way one speaks or behaves toward people.

But least he shoulde offend the Iewes with the asperitie of the word, if hee had said that the lawe was dead, hee vsed a digression, or deflection, saying, we are dead to the law.

意味（2）

The quality of being difficult or unpleasant to experience.

the asperity of Maine’s winter

意味（3）

The quality of having a rough or uneven surface.

Oyle of swete Almondes and of sisami taketh away the asperitie and roughenesse of the throte.

意味（4）

(countable) Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.

Whence comes it, that in Christendome there has been, almost from the time of the Apostles, such justling of one another out of their places, both by forraign, and Civill war? such stumbling at every little asperity of their own fortune, and every little eminence of that of other men?

意味（5）

(countable) An area that protrudes from a surface.

[…] like so many rough pebbles shook long together in a bag, by amicable collisions, they have worn down their asperities and sharp angles, and […] become round and smooth

意味（6）

(countable, geology) A section of a fault line with high friction, such that there is no movement along this part of the fault except during an earthquake.

We inferred that the locking of asperities did cause higher stresses associated with earthquake cycle itself to occur in areas adjacent to asperities, both updip and downdip from them, and that such stressing has been much less pronounced […]

asperities （ plural ）