- harshness or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner; severity; acrimony: The cause of her anger did not warrant such asperity.
- hardship; difficulty; rigor: the asperities of polar weather.
- roughness of surface; unevenness.
- something rough or harsh.
- roughness or sharpness of temper
- roughness or harshness of a surface, sound, taste, etc
- a condition hard to endure; affliction
- the elastically compressed region of contact between two surfaces caused by the normal force
