Usually means: Roughness on surfaces or interactions.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. asperities: Merriam-Webster
  2. asperities: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. asperities: Collins English Dictionary
  4. asperities: Vocabulary.com
  5. asperities: Wordnik
  6. asperities: Wiktionary
  7. Asperities, asperities: Dictionary.com
  8. Asperities: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Asperities: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Asperities: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. asperities: FreeDictionary.org
  12. asperities: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. asperities: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (asperity)

noun:  The quality of being harsh or severe in the way one speaks or behaves toward people.
noun:  The quality of being difficult or unpleasant to experience.
noun:  The quality of having a rough or uneven surface.
noun:  (countable) Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
noun:  (countable) An area that protrudes from a surface.
noun:  (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.
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