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noun
- sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste.
- harshness or severity, as of temper or expression.
noun plural -ties
- vitriolic or embittered speech, temper, etc
- sourness or bitterness of taste
1570s, from Middle French acerbité, from Latin acerbitatem (nominative acerbitas) “harshness, sharpness, bitterness,” from acerbus “bitter to taste, sharp, sour, tart” (related to acer “sharp;” cf. Latin superbus “haughty,” from super “above”), from Proto-Italic *akro-po- “sharp,” from PIE *ak- “sharp” (see acrid). Earliest use in English is figurative, of “sharp and bitter” persons. Of tastes, from 1610s.
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