causticity

English

Etymology

From caustic +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kɔːˈstɪsᵻti/

Noun

causticity (countable and uncountable; plural causticities)

1. The quality of being physically caustic; burning, corrosive.
2. (figuratively) Being caustic in speech, humour etc.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 65:

     He had not, he remarked with crushing causticity to one of his ministers, liberated France ‘to worry about the macaroni ration’.

Translations

the quality of being caustic

• Asturian: causticidá (ast) f
• Catalan: causticitat (ca) f
• French: causticité (fr) f
• Galician: causticidade (gl) f

• Irish: loiscneacht (ga) f
• Italian: causticità (it) f
• Portuguese: causticidade (pt) f
• Spanish: causticidad (es) f