Meaning of कठोरता in English

Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.
The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.
The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes.
The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes.
The quality or state of being harsh.
The quality of being implacable; implacability.
The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.
State of being indurated, or of having become hard.
Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling.
The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.
Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
Severity; rigor.
Rigidity; stiffness.
A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
See 1st Rigor, 2.
Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.
Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity.
Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
Violence; force; fury.
The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
Quality or state of being strict.
Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.
Severity; strictness; austerity.
Strenuousness; activity.