sourness
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English sowrenesse, sournesse, from Old English sūrnes (“sourness”), equivalent to sour + -ness.
Noun edit
sourness (countable and uncountable, plural sournesses)
- 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 edit
quality or condition
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said of human personalities
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