Just looking at a lemon makes one feel the sourness in one's mouth.
Source: tatoeba (1230800)
Sourness
Synonyms for "sourness" (122 found)
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Strong matches (36)
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Noun(5 words)
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29 translations across 16 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- στρυφνότης noun (condition or quality of being sour)
Catalan
2 entries- acidesa noun (condition or quality of being sour)
- agror noun (condition or quality of being sour)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 酸味 noun (condition or quality of being sour)
Dutch
2 entries- zerpte noun (condition or quality of being sour)
- zuurte noun (condition or quality of being sour)
Finnish
1 entries- happamuus noun (condition or quality of being sour)
Georgian
1 entries- სიმჟავე noun (condition or quality of being sour)
Greek
4 entries- αγουράδα noun (condition or quality of being sour)
- αγουρίλα noun (condition or quality of being sour)
- δυστροπία noun (of a person’s temperament)
- ξινίλα noun (condition or quality of being sour)
Hebrew
1 entries- חֲמִיצוּת noun (condition or quality of being sour)
Ilocano
1 entries- alsem noun (condition or quality of being sour)
Korean
2 entries- 산미 noun (condition or quality of being sour)
- 신맛 noun (condition or quality of being sour)
Latin
2 entries- aciditas noun (condition or quality of being sour)
- acor noun (condition or quality of being sour)
Old English
1 entries- sūrnes noun (condition or quality of being sour)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اكشیلك noun (condition or quality of being sour)
Spanish
4 entries- acedía noun (condition or quality of being sour)
- acidez noun (condition or quality of being sour)
- acidez noun (of a person’s temperament)
- acritud noun (of a person’s temperament)
Tagalog
3 entries- asim noun (condition or quality of being sour)
- kaasiman noun (condition or quality of being sour)
- pagkaasim noun (condition or quality of being sour)
Turkish
1 entries- ekşilik noun (condition or quality of being sour)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The proportion of sugar used for making cherry pie will, of course, need to be varied according to the sourness of the cherries used.
Source: tatoeba (11762480)
[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; […]
Source: wiktionary
Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to sourness, in her aspect.
Source: wiktionary
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