Sourness

noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The condition or quality of being sour. countable, uncountable

    "[O]ur Tympanouſe ſtatiſts / (In their affected grauitie of voice, / Sovverneſſe of countenance, maners crueltie, / Authoritie, vvealth, and all the ſpavvne of Fortune) / Thinke they beare all the kingdomes vvorth before them; […]"

  2. 2
    a sullen moody resentful disposition wordnet
  3. 3
    the property of being acidic wordnet
  4. 4
    the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth wordnet

Synonyms

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acerbityacidityaciditybitternesssulkinesstartness

Example

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"Just looking at a lemon makes one feel the sourness in one's mouth."

Etymology

From Middle English sowrenesse, sournesse, from Old English sūrnes (“sourness”), equivalent to sour + -ness.

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