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Sourness vs Bitterness - What's the difference?

sourness | bitterness | Related terms |

Sourness is a related term of bitterness.


As nouns the difference between sourness and bitterness

is that sourness is the quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities while bitterness is the quality of having a bitter taste.

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.

    bitterness

    English

    Noun

  • the quality of having a bitter taste
  • the quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment

    • Synonyms

    * (quality of being bitter in taste) acerbicness, acridity, acridness * (quality of feeling bitter) acrimony, gall, rancor/rancour, resentment