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Word Meanings - ACIDITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste; as, the acidity of lemon juice.

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  • MOROSENESS
    Sourness of temper; sulenness. Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degrees of pride and moroseness. I. Watts. Note: Moroseness is not precisely peevishness or fretfulness, though often accompained with it. It denotes
  • ACRIDITY; ACRIDNESS
    The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.
  • TARTNESS
    The quality or state of being tart. Syn. -- Acrimony; sourness; keenness; poignancy; severity; asperity; acerbity; harshness. See Acrimony.
  • ACIDITY
    The quality of being sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste; as, the acidity of lemon juice.
  • ROUGHNESS
    The quality or state of being rough.
  • SOURNESS
    The quality or state of being sour.
  • HARSHNESS
    The quality or state of being harsh. O, she is Ten times more gentle than her father 's crabbed, And he's composed of harshness. Shak. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Pope. Syn. -- Acrimony;
  • ACERBITY
    1. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit. 2. Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain. Barrow.
  • BITTERNESS
    1. The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind. The lip that curls
  • ACRIMONY
    1. A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants. Bacon. 2. Sharpness or severity, as of language or temper; irritating bitterness of disposition or
  • THOROUGHNESS
    The quality or state of being thorough; completeness.
  • PLACIDITY
    The quality or state of being placid; calmness; serenity. Hawthorne.

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