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hardness - the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale |
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softness a disposition to be lenient in judging others; "softness is not something permitted of good leaders"
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hard dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"
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soft not brilliant or glaring; "the moon cast soft shadows"; "soft pastel colors"; "subdued lighting"
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body,
consistence,
consistency,
eubstance the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted"
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firmness the property of being unyielding to the touch
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incompressibility the property of being incompressible
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hardness - 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" |
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ruggedness |
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difficultness,
difficulty the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"
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hardness - 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" |
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quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare
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