sourness
sourness noun: the condition or quality of being sour.
Noun
sourness (countable and uncountable, plural sournesses)
- The condition or quality of being sour.
- [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; […]1603–1604 (date written), [George Chapman], Bussy D’Ambois: A Tragedie: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for William Aspley, published 1607, →OCLC, Act I, page 1
- Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to sourness, in her aspect.1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 226
- Synonyms:
- acerbitude, acerbity, acetosity, acidity, acidness, austereness, austerity, sharpness, tartness
sourness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
sourness in Hindi
- sourness, acidity; tartness
- खटाई khaṭāī
- sourness; acidity
- अम्लता amlătā
- sourness
- अम्लिमा amlimā
sourness in Tamil
- sourness, acidity )
- புளிப்பு puḷippu
sourness in Urdu
- sourness, acidity
- کھٹائی khaṭāī
sourness in Bengali
- sourness, acidity
- টক ṭok
More languagesFewer languages
- sourness in Telugu
- పులుపు pulupu, ఆమ్లము āmlamu, పుల్లన pullana
- sourness in Kannada
- ಅಮ್ಲ, ಹುಳಿತನ, ಆಮ್ಲತ್ವ
- sourness in Sanskrit
- आम्ल āmla
- sourness in Tagalog
- asim, kaasiman, pagkaasim
Synonyms of sourness
Antonyms
Forms of sourness
| plural | sournesses |
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Origin of sourness
From Middle English sowrenesse, sournesse, from Old English sūrnes (“sourness”), equivalent to sour + -ness.
Questions about sourness
- What does sourness mean?
- Sourness means the condition or quality of being sour.
- What is sourness in Hindi?
- Sourness in Hindi is खटाई (khaṭāī), अम्लता (amlătā), अम्लिमा (amlimā). See Sourness meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sourness?
- Sourness is a noun.
- What is the plural of sourness?
- The plural of sourness is sournesses.
Words near sourness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sourness (page history and authors); अम्लता (Hindi) (page history and authors); புளிப்பு (Tamil) (page history and authors); کھٹائی (Urdu) (page history and authors); টক (Bengali) (page history and authors); ఆమ్లము (Telugu) (page history and authors); sourness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); आम्ल (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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