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acerbity

5 antonyms for acerbity — opposites grouped by meaning.

Noun — A sour, bitter taste, similar to that of fruit before it ripens.

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1. noun

A sour, bitter taste, similar to that of fruit before it ripens.

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2. noun

Sharpness or bitterness in tone or manner.

““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.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from French acerbité, which came from Latin acerbitās (“acerbity; harshness”), itself from acerbus (“bitter”). See acerb.

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