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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Acridity \A*crid"i*ty\, Acridness \Ac"rid*ness\n. The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; extreme bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.
Syn: acridness
2. having an acrid smell.
Syn: pungency [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
acridity
noun
1: having an acrid smell
2: extreme bitterness; "the acridity of alkali" [syn: {acridness}]
3: the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone [syn: {acridness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "acridity": acerbity, acidity, acidness, acidulousness, acridness, acrimony, acuity, acumination, acuteness, asperity, astringence, astringency, bite, bitingness, bitter pill, bitterness, causticity, causticness, corrosiveness, cuttingness, edge, fierceness, gall, gall and wormwood, grip, harshness, incisiveness, keenness, mordacity, mordancy, mucronation, piercingness, piquancy, poignancy, point, pointedness, prickliness, pungency, rigor, roughness, severity, sharpness, sourness, spinosity, stabbingness, sting, stridency, stringency, tartness, teeth, thorniness, trenchancy, vehemence, violence, virulence
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