Sourness

Definition: Sourness

Sourness

Noun

1. The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth.

2. The property of being acidic.

3. A sullen moody resentful disposition.

Date "sourness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Sourness

Synonyms: acidity (n), moroseness (n), sour (n), sulkiness (n), sullenness (n), tartness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Bitterness	Sourness; pungency .
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sourness

English words defined with "sourness": Acerbitude, Acescency, Acetosity, Acidness ♦ Torvity ♦ Verjuice, Vinegar tree, vinegariness, vinegarishness. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sourness": can intake worker ♦ MILK RECEIVER, Misnomers. (references)

"Sourness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sourness" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	23	72,767

Language		Translations for "sourness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tharti (acidity), thartësi (acerbity, acidity), acarim (aggravation, exacerbation, fluster, irritation, snap). (various references)

Arabic		‏حموضة (acidity, tartness), ‏حذوق, ‏خميرة (barm, enzyme, ferment, leaven, leavening, yeast). (various references)

Bulgarian		вкисналост, противност (unpleasantness). (various references)

Chinese		酸腐. (various references)

Czech		zatrpklost (acerbity, embitterment, jaundice), nevrlost (glumness, grumpiness, petulance, spleen, sulk, surliness), mrzutost (aggravation, annoyance, grouchiness, trouble, unpleasantness, vexation), kyselost (acidity). (various references)

Finnish		happamuus (acidity). (various references)

French		humeur revêche, aigreur, acidité (souring). (various references)

German		säure (acid, acidity, sharpness, tartness). (various references)

Greek		στρυφνότησ (cantankerousness), στρυφνότητα (cantankerousness), ξινίλα (sour taste), ξυνάδα. (various references)

Hebrew		ק�"ות (bluntness, dullness, numbness, stupor, torpor), חמיצות (acerbity, acescence, acidity, acidness, tartness). (various references)

Hungarian		savanyúság (acerbity, acidity, pickle, Pickles, verjuice), fanyarság (acerbity, acridity, acrimoniousness, tartness). (various references)

Italian		asprezza (acerbity, acridity, asperity, bitterness, harshness, pungency, ruggedness, tartness), acredine (acridity, pungency, sharpness), acidit� (acid, acidity, tartness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		酸味 (acidity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さ�"み (acidity, the third rank). (various references)

Korean		� 맛. (various references)

Manx		soorid (leaven), gortys (brackishness), geyrid (abruptness, acidity, acridity, acuteness, austerity, definition, discernment, hardness, hardness of sound, incisiveness, intensity, keenness, mordacity, poignancy, pointedness, pungency, quickness of sight, rigidity, rigour of the law, sharpness, stiffness, strictness, stringency), gearid (staleness). (various references)

Pig Latin		ournesssay

Romanian		acriturã (acidity), acrime (acidity, acidness, enmity, sour taste, tartness, virus). (various references)

Russian		кислота (acid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kiselost (acidity, tartness), jetkost (acridity, acrimony, caustic). (various references)

Spanish		aspereza (abruptness, acerbity, acridness, asperity, astringence, astringences, harshness, rawness, roughness, scragginess, sharpness, surliness, topmast), agrura, acidez (acidities, acidity, acidness, bitterness, heartburn, sharpness, tartness). (various references)

Swedish		surhet (acerbity, grouch). (various references)

Turkish		suratsızlık (grouchiness, grumpiness, grumps, moroseness, vinegar), yüzü gülmeme, nahoşluk, huysuzluk (acerbity, acrimony, bad temper, bile, biliousness, crankiness, crossness, cussedness, devilry, disagreeableness, distemper, fractiousness, grouch, grouchiness, huff, moodiness, pettishness, petulance, spleen, surliness, temper, vice, viciousness), hırçınlık (acrimony, bad temper, gruffness, obstinacy, pettishness, pugnacity), ekşilik (acerbity, acidity, tartness, verjuice), burukluk (acerbity, acridity). (various references)

Ukrainian		кислий смак. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự chua tính hay cáu bắn tính chất chua chát, tính chanh chua. (various references)

Welsh		surni (staleness, tartness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	austeritatem. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sourness": sournesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sourness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: soudness. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "sourness" (pronounced 'Sour"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-n-o-r-s-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: sensors.
	-2 letters: nouses, nurses, onuses, rouens, rouses, senors, sensor, serous, snores, souses.
	-3 letters: euros, noses, nurse, roses, rouen, roues, rouse, runes, ruses, senor, snore, sones, sores, sorns, sorus, sours, souse, suers, users.
	-4 letters: eons, erns, eros, euro, ness, noes, nose, nous, ones, onus, ores, oses, ours, roes, rose, roue, rues, rune, runs, ruse, sers.
	Words containing the letters "e-n-o-r-s-s-s-u"
	+1 letter: suspensor, uncrosses.
	+2 letters: dournesses, porousness, robustness, sensoriums, sournesses, sunstrokes, suspensors, suspensory.
	+3 letters: amorousness, arduousness, curiousness, cursoriness, nervousness, obscureness, odorousness, onerousness, percussions, persuasions, profuseness, raucousness, riotousness, roguishness, roughnesses, roundnesses, ruinousness, sandgrouses, seriousness, snowbrushes, submersions, subversions, supersonics, suppression, underbosses, variousness.
	+4 letters: canorousness, cocksureness, connoisseurs, consumerisms, consumerists, cumbrousness, decorousness, desirousness, dolorousness, enormousness, generousness, gloriousness, gorgeousness, graciousness, grievousness, groundmasses, gruesomeness, housepersons, humorousness, illusoriness, lustrousness, misconstrues, numerousness, outsiderness, perilousness, perviousness, porousnesses, preciousness, previousness, ravenousness, resoluteness, resubmission, rigorousness, robustnesses, rotundnesses, scabrousness, scornfulness, sonorousness, southernness, sportfulness, springhouses, spuriousness, stubbornness, superpersons, supersensory, supersession, supervisions, suppressions, suspensories, timorousness, tortuousness, usuriousness, uxoriousness, vaporousness, vigorousness, virtuousness, wondrousness.
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