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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sourness has 3 senses

• sourness(n = noun.cognition) sour, tartness - the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth; Array
is a kind of gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste, taste perception, taste sensation
has particulars: acidity, acidulousness
Derived form adjective sour₃

• sourness(n = noun.attribute) acidity, sour - the property of being acidic; Array
is a kind of taste property
has particulars: acerbity, tartness, vinegariness, vinegarishness
Derived forms adjective sour₁, adjective sour₂, adjective sour₄, adjective sour₃

• sourness(n = noun.attribute) moroseness, sulkiness, sullenness - a sullen moody resentful disposition; Array
is a kind of ill nature
Derived form adjective sour₆

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THESAURUS

sourness

Faustianism, acerbity, acidity, acidulousness, acridity, acridness, acrimony, anger, animosity, animus, asperity, astringence, astringency, atonalism, atonality, bad blood, bad humor, bad temper, bile, biliousness, bitingness, bitter feeling, bitter pill, bitterness, cacophony, causticity, choler, clinker, cold comfort, corrosiveness, cuttingness, disappointment, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, discord, discordance, discordancy, disgruntlement, disharmony, dissatisfaction, dissatisfiedness, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, divine discontent, edge, envy, feud, flatness, gall, gall and wormwood, hard feelings, harshness, ill blood, ill feeling, ill humor, ill nature, ill temper, ill will, inharmoniousness, inharmony, keenness, mordancy, off note, peevishness, petulance, piquancy, poignancy, pungency, querulousness, rancor, rebelliousness, resentment, restiveness, restlessness, roughness, severity, sharpness, soreness, sour note, spleen, stridor, sulkiness, tartness, trenchancy, tunelessness, uneasiness, unfulfillment, unhappiness, unharmoniousness, unmusicality, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, untunefulness, vendetta, venom, vexation of spirit, virulence, vitriol, wolf

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sourness

Bitterness

N bitterness, acridness, acridity, acrimony, caustic, alkali, acerbity, gall, wormwood, bitters, astringent bitters, Angostura, aromatic bitters, sourness, pungency, alkaloids, turmeric, bitter, bitterish, acrid, acerb, acerbic, bitter as gall, bitter pill to take, sugar coating on a bitter pill.

Sourness

N sourness, acid, acidity, low pH, acetous fermentation, lactic fermentation, vinegar, verjuice, crab, alum, acetic acid, lactic acid, sour, acid, acidulous, acidulated, tart, crabbed, acetous, acetose, acerb, acetic, sour as vinegar, sourish, acescent, subacid, styptic, hard, rough, sour as a lemon, (4) Odor.

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