abrasiveness
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Definition
- Noun:
- The quality of being harsh, grating, or irritating in manner or effect: This refers to a person's disagreeable, confrontational, or annoying character or behavior.
- The physical property of a material that causes wear, friction, or scraping through mechanical action: This refers to the roughness or coarseness of a surface that can grind down or scratch another material.
Usage Examples
Noun (Behavioral Quality):
- His abrasiveness during the meeting alienated potential allies.
- Despite her professional competence, her abrasiveness made her difficult to work with.
Noun (Physical Property):
- The abrasiveness of the sandpaper is determined by its grit size.
- Engineers tested the abrasiveness of the new mineral to see how it would affect the machinery.
Advanced Usage
"to temper one's abrasiveness": to soften or moderate one's harsh manner.
- The manager was advised to temper his abrasiveness to improve team morale.
"a measure of abrasiveness": a quantified evaluation of a material's ability to cause wear.
- The Mohs scale is a measure of a mineral's hardness and abrasiveness.
Variants and Related Words
Abrasive (adj): having the property of abrasiveness; harsh or rough in manner.
- An abrasive cleaning pad.
- He has an abrasive personality.
Abrasive (n): a substance used for grinding, polishing, or cleaning a surface.
- Silicon carbide is a common abrasive.
Synonyms
- For behavioral quality: Harshness, sharpness, acerbity, truculence, irritability.
- For physical property: Roughness, coarseness, grittiness, harshness.
Related Phrases
"Abrasive wit": humor that is sharp, cutting, or sarcastic.
- Her abrasive wit often left people feeling insulted rather than amused.
"Wear abrasiveness": the capacity of a material to cause wear on another surface.
- The wear abrasiveness of the road surface affects tire longevity.
Noun
- the quality of being sharply disagreeable
- the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions