sourness
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Sourness, she continued, is “a bizarro cue, a signal reliable neither for toxicity nor for nutrition.”
From Salon • Sep. 13, 2025
Sourness and saltiness are key indicators of under-extracted coffee, bitterness or dryness in the mouth often a marker of over-extraction.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2015
What vex'd them the more was, that it was wrote without Rancour or Peevishness; and, if not in a pleasant, at least in an open good-humour'd Manner, free, I dare say, from Pedantry and Sourness.
From A Letter to Dion by Viner, Jacob
Sourness -- N. sourness &c. adj.; acid, acidity, low pH; acetous fermentation, lactic fermentation. vinegar, verjuice†, crab, alum; acetic acid, lactic acid.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
Because, of a Phaedrus, you seem to have become a Cato, there is so much Sourness in your Countenance.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius
