How do you use Asperity in a sentence? See 1 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like grimness or sharpness, plus the exact meaning.
Asperity in a sentence
Asperity meaning
- The quality of having a rough or uneven surface; roughness, unevenness; (countable, chiefly in the plural) a protruding or rough area or point on a surface; a protrusion.
- 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.
Synonyms of Asperity
Using Asperity
- The main meaning on this page is: The quality of having a rough or uneven surface; roughness, unevenness; (countable, chiefly in the plural) a protruding or rough area or point on a surface; a protrusion. | The quality of having a rough or uneven surface; roughness, unevenness; (countable, chiefly in the plural) a protruding or rough area or point on a surface; a protrusion. | 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.
- Useful related words include: grimness, ill nature, sharpness, difficultness.
Context around Asperity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 1 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Asperity
- In this selection, "asperity" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include order on asperity of speech. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "asperity" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with asperity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
When the debate is getting excessively heated, it is open to a member to move "that the Standing Order on Asperity of Speech be read by the Clerk". (28 words)
When the debate is getting excessively heated, it is open to a member to move "that the Standing Order on Asperity of Speech be read by the Clerk". (28 words)
Example sentences (1)
When the debate is getting excessively heated, it is open to a member to move "that the Standing Order on Asperity of Speech be read by the Clerk".