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

Sourness is the precise sensation that wells within him.

From A Book of Burlesques by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

Keep this in a good Vault, and it will remain good for three or four Years as Verjuice; but a little more time will make it lose its Sourness, and it will become like Wine.

From The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm by Bradley, Richard

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