What's the difference between steeliness and steepiness?
Steeliness
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being steely.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a significant group of disorders which present with unruly hair, and these have been described under all manner of titles, including crinkly, woolly, kinky, crimped, frizzly, steely, spunglass, in an attempt to define their clinical appearance.
(2) As a person, she was always kind and courteous and as a leader she was steely and determined.
(3) The Observer of the mid-1950s resembled nothing so much as a giant seminar conducted by the soft-spoken and diffident, yet steely, figure of David Astor.
(4) Behind the mild-mannered, laid-back exterior, the extraordinary calm, is a man of great steeliness and backbone," said one adviser.
(5) Archie Norman , ITV's chairman, said Crozier, who is the former head of the Football Association, had the "steely resolve we need at ITV", which was looking for a "great leader".
(6) Steely hair disease, a neurodegenerative disorder, is characterized by slow growth, progressive cerebral dysfunction, kinky friable hair, x-linked inheritance, and death before three years of age.
(7) There's a steely determination amongst charity workers, a feeling that we won't let down the people that we're here to help.
(8) Jack is played with dreamy intensity and later (as the realities of criminal life begin to kick in) with steely resolve by LaBeouf, who must be able to sympathise with Jack's predicament.
(9) Some 26 years later Laake can still recall every detail of the trial: his aching wrists cuffed behind his back; the musty smell of the courtroom; the steely voice of the young female judge.
(10) The agents remain steely and mutinous, their eyes fixed on a distant plot of land in James Street, Covent Garden, where they could all start a new life.
(11) She must have been traumatised, yet seemed calm and steely.
(12) Salim Amin, who now runs the African picture agency Camerapix set up by his father, said Mohamed and Buerk shared a similarly steely determination.
(13) He has been right too often in this tournament for it to be down to random chance, to the whims of the gods and to be about anything but cold logic, a huge ego and a steely, steely nerve.
(14) Add them up and the picture you get is not of the steely man at the Treasury, purposefully executing a detailed plan – but a first-timer on a unicycle, veering about all over the shop.
(15) The steely exchange came as Gove reluctantly released details of 517 applications made for the first three waves of free schools after losing a tribunal ruling last month.
(16) Cate Blanchett gave one of these addresses just a week ago and you’re stuck with me.” Thorpe went on to congratulate the graduates on their achievement, adding the transition from student to working life would take a “steely determination”.
(17) Karen pauses and when she speaks again her voice is less steely and more vulnerable.
(18) These performances are splendid, but the principals are exceptional: Thompson finds vulnerability beneath Travers's spikes, and Hanks brings a steely tenor to Disney that prevents him from becoming completely gooey.
(19) She told Radio Times that her final scenes were not "beautiful" and were "necessarily agonising, because of her steely determination to end her own life".
(20) We find it troubling that one of the police commissioner’s apparent priorities is to ticket pedestrians,” said Paul Steely-White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives , which campaigns for better conditions for cyclists, walkers and public transport users.