sourness

English

Etymology

From Middle English sowrenesse, sournesse, from Old English sūrnes (“sourness”), equivalent to sour +‎ -ness.

Noun

sourness (countable and uncountable, plural sournesses)

1. The quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities.
   • 1811, Jane Austen, chapter 2.1, in Sense and Sensibility:

     Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to sourness, in her aspect.

Translations

quality or condition

• Dutch: zuurte (nl) f, zerpte f
• Finnish: happamuus (fi)
• Georgian: სიმჟავე (simžave)
• Greek: αγουρίλα (el) f (agouríla), αγουράδα (el) f (agouráda), ξινίλα (el) f (xiníla)
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• Ilocano: alsem
• Latin: acor m
• Tagalog: kaasiman, asim (tl), pagkaasim

said of human personalities

• Greek: στρυφνότητα (el) f (stryfnótita), δυστροπία (el) f (dystropía)
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Anagrams

• sunroses