Acerbity

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  • noun. Sourness or acidness of taste, character, or tone.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste.
  • noun. Poignancy or severity.
  • noun. Harshness or severity, as of temper or expression.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
  • noun. Harshness, bitterness, or severity.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
  • noun. Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a rough and bitter manner
  • noun. a sharp bitterness
  • noun. a sharp sour taste
    • Word Usage
    "In the other countries of Europe, racial and religious acerbity is intensified by economic and political agitation."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    acidity  bitter  bitterness  disagreeableness  sour  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    acidity  alkalinity  asperity  belligerence  crispness  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    acescency  acid  acidity  acidness  acidulousness  
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