ACRIDITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acridity mean? 

• ACRIDITY (noun)
  The noun ACRIDITY has 3 senses:

1. having an acrid smell

2. extreme bitterness

3. the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone

  Familiarity information: ACRIDITY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACRIDITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an acrid smell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("acridity" is a kind of...):

odor; odour; olfactory perception; olfactory sensation; smell (the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Extreme bitterness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

acridity; acridness

Context example:

the acridity of alkali

Hypernyms ("acridity" is a kind of...):

bitter; bitterness (the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

acridity; acridness

Hypernyms ("acridity" is a kind of...):

disagreeableness (the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant)

Derivation:

acrid (harsh or corrosive in tone)