acerbity
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Acerbity \A*cerb"i*ty\, n. [F. acerbit['e], L. acerbitas, fr.
acerbus. See {Acerb}.]
1. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like
that of unripe fruit.
[1913 Webster]
2. Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of
temper, of language, of pain. --Barrow.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "acerbity":
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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