Acridness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Acridity \A*crid"i*ty\, Acridness \Ac"rid*ness\n.
     The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness;
     extreme bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of
     a speech.
  
     Syn: acridness


          [1913 Webster]
  
     2. having an acrid smell.
  
     Syn: pungency
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  acridness
       n 1: extreme bitterness; "the acridity of alkali" [syn: {acridity}]
       2: the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or
          tone [syn: {acridity}]