acerbity
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acerbity
n. sourness, astringency; harshness, bitterness (of temper)

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acerbity

Noun
1. a sharp bitterness
(hypernym) bitterness, bitter
(derivation) acerbate
2. a sharp sour taste
(synonym) tartness
(hypernym) sourness, sour, acidity
(derivation) acerbate
3. a sharp and bitter manner
(synonym) bitterness, acrimony, jaundice
(hypernym) disagreeableness
(derivation) embitter, envenom, acerbate


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Acerbity
(n.)
Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
  
 
(n.)
Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain.
  

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acerbity
Synonyms and related words:
acescency, acid, acidity, acidness, acidulousness, acridity, acridness, acrimony, animosity, asperity, astringence, astringency, bile, bite, bitingness, bitter pill, bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, causticity, causticness, choler, corrosiveness, crabbedness, cuttingness, dourness, dryness, edge, fierceness, gall, gall and wormwood, gnashing of teeth, greenness, grip, hard feelings, harshness, heartburning, hyperacidity, incisiveness, keenness, mordacity, mordancy, piercingness, piquancy, poignancy, point, pungency, rancor, rankling, rigor, roughness, severity, sharpness, slow burn, soreness, sour, sourishness, sourness, spleen, stabbingness, sting, stridency, stringency, subacidity, surliness, tartishness, tartness, teeth, trenchancy, unripeness, unsweetness, vehemence, verjuice, vinegariness, vinegarishness, violence, virulence
  

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