Acrimony vs Spleen - What's the difference?
acrimony | spleen |
A sharp and bitter hatred.
* 1826 , , Chapter 12
(anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
A bad mood; spitefulness.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete, rare) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
* Alexander Pope
* Wordsworth
A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between acrimony and spleen
is that acrimony is a sharp and bitter hatred while spleen is obsession,.acrimony
English
Noun
(acrimonies)- Her acrimony for her neighbors manifests itself with shouting and stomping.
- In her resentful mood, these expressions had been remembered with acrimony and disdain; [...].
Synonyms
* animosity * bitterness * enmity * hatred * oppositionAntonyms
* friendship * peacespleen
English
(wikipedia spleen)Noun
(en noun)- In noble minds some dregs remain, / Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.
- A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways.
- Bodies changed to various forms by spleen .
- There is a luxury in self-dispraise: / And inward self-disparagement affords / To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
- Thy silly thought enforces my spleen .