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.
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2. Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of
temper, of language, of pain. --Barrow.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
acerbity
n 1: a sharp bitterness
2: a sharp sour taste [syn: tartness]
3: a sharp and bitter manner [syn: bitterness, acrimony, jaundice]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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