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/əˈsɜːbɪti/ · noun
Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit..
acerbity of temper, of language, of pain
“Well ?” I repeated with some acerbity. I had been wondering for the last ten minutes how many more knots he would manage to make in that same bit of string before he actually started undoing them again.
[…] 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;
This opera was mainly in the style of late Puccini, with acerbities stolen from Stravinsky.
Use acerbity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Acerbity means Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit..
Common synonyms include bitterness, acrimony, jaundice, tartness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
acerbity of temper, of language, of pain
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