different between harshness vs austereness

English

harsh +? -ness

harshness (countable and uncountable, plural harshnesses)

The quality of being harsh.
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

austere +? -ness

austereness (uncountable)

The state of being austere
1. harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.
2. severity; strictness; austerity.

austereness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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