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Sourness vs Asperity - What's the difference?

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Sourness is a related term of asperity.


As nouns the difference between sourness and asperity

is that sourness is the quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities while asperity is roughness as of stone or weather.

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.

    asperity

    English

    Noun

    (asperities)
  • Roughness as of stone or weather.
    • asperity of Maine's winter
  • Harshness, as of temper.
  • * 1878 : :
    • Go, ribald, get you hence
    To your cabin with celerity.
    This is the consequence
    Of ill-advised asperity !
  • Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
  • (geology) A part of a geological fault line that does not move.
    • Earthquakes begin and end at asperities .