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Honesty that skipped the part where it tries to be kind.
means The quality of being rough, severe, or unkind in tone, judgment, or treatment.
from From 'harsh,' which entered English in the 1500s probably borrowed from a Scandinavian source — compare Danish 'harsk' and Swedish 'härsk,' meaning rancid or rough-tasting. The word likely traces back further to a root meaning 'rough' or 'hairy,' the same family that gives us notions of coarse, bristly texture. So calling words 'harsh' is, at root, calling them bristly — rough to the touch, even when the touch is only verbal. The '-ness' is the ordinary English suffix turning the quality into a noun, bottling the roughness so it can be handed over whole.
- often mistaken for
- confidence, usually by the harsh person
- efficient but
- burns the bridge it's trying to cross
- feedback version
- true, timed wrong, delivered worse
- kinder cousin
- directness, which keeps its receipts softer