hardening

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hard=en=ing
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

hardening, n. 

•  Making hard or harder.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hardening, n.
1 the process or an instance of becoming hard.
2 (in full hardening of the arteries) Med. = ARTERIOSCLEROSIS.

THESAURUS

hardening

abidingness, acclimation, acclimatization, accommodation, accustoming, adaption, adjustment, agglutination, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, breaking, breaking-in, calcification, callusing, case hardening, changelessness, clumping, clustering, compression, concentration, concretion, condensation, conditioning, consolidation, constancy, cornification, crystallization, densification, domestication, durability, durableness, duration, endurance, familiarization, firming, firmness, fixedness, fortification, fossilization, frozenness, granulation, habituation, hornification, housebreaking, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, induration, indurative, inurement, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, invigoration, lapidification, lastingness, lithification, long standing, naturalization, orientation, ossification, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency, petrifaction, petrifactive, petrification, petrifying, quiescence, refreshment, reinforcement, reinvigoration, restrengthening, revivification, rigidity, sclerosis, seasoning, setting, solidification, solidity, stability, standing, stasis, steadfastness, steeling, stiffening, strengthening, taming, tempering, torpor, toughening, training, unchangeability, unchangingness, vitrifaction, vitrification

ROGET THESAURUS

hardening

Impiety

N impiety, sin, irreverence, profaneness, profanity, profanation, blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege, scoffing, hypocrisy, pietism, cant, pious fraud, lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence, misdevotion, formalism, austerity, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, pharisaism, precisianism, sabbatism, sabbatarianism, odium theologicum, sacerdotalism, bigotry blue laws, hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation, sinner, scoffer, blasphemer, sacrilegist, sabbath breaker, worldling, hypocrite, Tartufe, Mawworm, bigot, saint, Pharisee, sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee, ranter, fanatic, juramentado, the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate, sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one, children of darkness, impious, irreligious, desecrating, profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous, un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate, hardened, perverted, reprobate, hypocritical, canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much, bigoted, fanatical, priest-ridden, under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion, giovane santo diavolo vecchio.