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Acerbity vs Sourness - What's the difference?

acerbity | sourness | Synonyms |

Acerbity is a synonym of sourness.


As nouns the difference between acerbity and sourness

is that acerbity is sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit while sourness is the quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities.

acerbity

English

Noun

(acerbities)
  • 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 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.}}

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    sourness

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • The quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities.
    • 1811' ''Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to '''sourness , in her aspect.'' — Jane Austen, ''Sense and Sensibility , Chapter 2.1.