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acridity

noun

Etymology

From acrid + -ity.

  1. derived from ācris
  2. suffixed as acridity — “acrid + ity”

Definitions

  1. Bitterness or acerbity.

  2. An acrid taste or smell.

  3. Bitterness in speech or behavior

    Bitterness in speech or behavior; causticness.

    • She was not safe from the acridity of his tongue but at least she need not fear physical violence, which was well within the possibilities for others.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for acridity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA