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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
hardness
1. the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale • Ant: softness • Derivationally related forms: hard • Hypernyms: consistency, consistence, eubstance, body • Hyponyms: firmness, incompressibility • Attrubites: hard, soft 2. a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering - the costs of reducing hardness depend on the relative amounts of calcium and magnesium compounds that are present • Hypernyms: quality 3. devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness • Syn: unfeelingness, callousness, callosity, insensibility • Derivationally related forms: insensible (for: insensibility), hard, callous (for: callosity), callous (for: callousness), unfeeling (for: unfeelingness) • Hypernyms: insensitivity, insensitiveness • Hyponyms: dullness 4. the quality of being difficult to do - he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness - the ruggedness of his exams caused half the class to fail • Syn: ruggedness • Derivationally related forms: rugged (for: ruggedness), hard • Hypernyms: difficulty, difficultness 5. excessive sternness - severity of character - the harshness of his punishment was inhuman - the rigors of boot camp • Syn: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, stiffness • Derivationally related forms: hard, inclement (for: inclemency), rigorous (for: rigorousness), rigorous (for: rigor), harsh (for: harshness), severe (for: severeness), severe (for: severity) • Hypernyms: sternness, strictness
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