Acerbity vs Acidulous - What's the difference?
acerbity | acidulous |
Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish.
* Edmund Burke
* 1931': He talked with '''acidulous tolerance of the exalted personages who had sent Ashenden to X. -- , ''His Excellency
As a noun acerbity
is sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.As an adjective acidulous is
slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish.acerbity
English
Noun
(acerbities)citation, passage=“Well ?” I repeated with some acerbity . I had been wondering for the last ten minutes how many more knots he would manage to make in that same bit of string before he actually started undoing them again.}}
References
*acidulous
English
Adjective
(head)- an acidulous tincture