Firmness; close union of the component parts; compactness; solidity; the quality of bodies which resists impression; opposed to softness and fluidity.

Difficulty to be understood.

Difficulty to be executed or accomplished; as the hardness of an enterprise.

Scarcity; penury; difficulty of obtaining money; as the hardness of the times.

Obduracy; impenitence; confirmed state of wickedness; as hardness of heart.

Coarseness of features; harshness of look; as hardness of favor.

Severity of cold; rigor; as the hardness of winter.

Cruelty of temper; savageness; harshness.€ The blame . May hang upon your hardness.

Stiffness; harshness; roughness; as the hardnesses of sculpture.

Closeness; niggardliness; stinginess.

Hardship; severe labor, trials or sufferings. Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.2 Timothy 2:3.