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Vitriolic vs Causticity - What's the difference?

vitriolic | causticity |

As an adjective vitriolic

is of, derived from, or similar to a vitriol.

As a noun causticity is

the quality of being physically caustic; burning, corrosive.

vitriolic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of, derived from, or similar to a vitriol
  • bitterly scathing; caustic: vitriolic criticism
  • (chemistry): Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste.
  • See also

    * Vitriolic acid * sulphuric acid * vitriol

    causticity

    English

    Noun

  • The quality of being physically caustic; burning, corrosive.
  • (figuratively) Being caustic in speech, humour etc.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 65:
  • *:He had not, he remarked with crushing causticity to one of his ministers, liberated France ‘to worry about the macaroni ration’.