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Sourness vs Poignancy - What's the difference?

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Sourness is a related term of poignancy.


As nouns the difference between sourness and poignancy

is that sourness is the quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities while poignancy is the quality of being poignant.

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.

    poignancy

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The quality of being poignant
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 27 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=The Conan O’Brien-penned half-hour has the capacity to rip our collective hearts out the way the cute, funny bad girl next door does to Bart when she reveals that her new boyfriend is Jimbo Jones, but the show keeps shying away from genuine emotion in favor of jokes that, while overwhelmingly funny, detract from the poignancy and the emotional intimacy of the episode.}}