sourness
(noun)
noun
1. the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
Similar word(s): sour, tartness
Definition categories: thought, taste
2. the property of being acidic
Similar word(s): acidity, sour
Definition categories: attribute
3. a sullen moody resentful disposition
Similar word(s): moroseness, sulkiness, sullenness
Definition categories: attribute
Sentences with sourness as a noun:
- 1811 Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to sourness , in her aspect. — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 2.1.