What is the meaning of asperity?

Something hard to endure.
- usage: "the asperity of northern winters"
- synonyms: grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness
Harshness of manner.
- synonyms: sharpness

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