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acerbities

acerbities is the plural of acerbity.

Meaning of acerbity

Noun

acerbity (countable and uncountable, plural acerbities)

  1. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
  2. (figuratively) Harshness, bitterness, or severity.
    • acerbity of temper, of language, of pain
  3. (countable) Something harsh (e.g. a remark, act or experience).
    • […] the recollection of that yesterday […] made him bear with the meekness and patience of a true-hearted man all the worrying little acerbities of to-day;1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 16, in Mary Barton, volume 2, London: Chapman and Hall, page 222

Questions about acerbities

What is acerbities the plural of?
Acerbities is the plural of acerbity.

Words near acerbities in the dictionary

  1. acerber
  2. acerbest
  3. acerbic
  4. acerbically
  5. acerbicness
  6. acerbities
  7. acerbitous
  8. acerbitude
  9. acerbitudes
  10. acerbity
  11. acerbly

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