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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]:
acridness
noun
1: extreme bitterness; "the acridity of alkali" [syn: {acridity}]
2: the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone [syn: {acridity}]
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