Vitriolic vs Causticity - What's the difference?
vitriolic | causticity |
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.
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’.