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Acridness

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

2. having an acrid smell.

Syn: pungency

Wiktionary
acridness

n. 1 bitterness or acerbity 2 An acrid taste or smell.

WordNet
acridness

  1. n. extreme bitterness; "the acridity of alkali" [syn: acridity]

  2. the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone [syn: acridity]

Usage examples of "acridness".

He was so close that Danlo could see each of the large pores puncturing his cheeks and smell the metallic acridness of jook wafting off his breath.

For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapory shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it.