dureza-hardness: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is dureza? dureza is hardness

What is hardness?

  • f. Resistencia que ofrece un cuerpo a ser rayado: el diamante es el mineral con mayor dureza.

    F. Resistance offered by a body to be scratched: diamond is the mineral with the highest hardness.

  • Falta de blandura: el abuelo no puede comer esa carne debido a su dureza.

    Lack of softness: the grandfather cannot eat that meat because of its hardness.

  • Falta de sensibilidad, aspereza, severidad excesiva: esa enfermera demostró demasiada dureza con el enfermo.

    Lack of sensitivity, roughness, excessive severity: that nurse showed too much hardness with the patient.

  • Ausencia de delicadeza o suavidad en una obra artística: dureza de líneas.

    Absence of delicacy or softness in an artistic work: hardness of lines.

  • Violencia: se empleó con mucha dureza en el campo de juego.

    Violence: it was used very harshly on the playing field.

  • Callosidad, capa de piel dura que se forma en algunas partes del cuerpo: tiene durezas en los talones.

    Callosity, a layer of hard skin that forms on some parts of the body: it has hardness on the heels.

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