 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
acerbity
noun
1: a sharp bitterness
2: a sharp sour taste [syn: {tartness}]
3: a sharp and bitter manner [syn: {bitterness}, {acrimony}, {jaundice}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Acerbity \A*cerb"i*ty\, noun [F. acerbit['e], L. acerbitas, fr.
acerbus. See {Acerb}.]
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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