causticity
91witty — witty, humorous, facetious, jocular, jocose are comparable when they apply to persons and their utterances and mean provoking or intended to provoke laughter or smiles. Witty (compare WIT) suggests a high degree of cleverness and quickness in… …
92acerbity — n 1.(all of taste) sourness, bitterness, tartness, acidity, acidness, acridity, acridness, acidu lousness; pungency, sharpness, unsavoriness, roughness, harshness. 2.(all of expression or temperament) acrimony, causticity, virulence, mordancy,… …
93acid — n 1. acrimony, acrimoniousness, acerbity, causticity, mordancy; astringency, trenchancy, virulence, virulency, asperity, venomousness, venomness. adj 2.(all usu. of taste) sour, vinegarish, vinegary, acetous, bitter, tart, harsh; acerb, acerbic,… …
94acidity — n 1.(all usu. of taste) sourness, bitterness, vinegariness, acidulousness; tartness, harshness, sharpness, acridity, acerbity. 2.(all usu. of expression or temperament) astringency, severity, sternness, harshness, acerbity, austerity, stringency; …
95acrimony — n 1. acrimoniousness, causticity, asperity, mordancy, acridness, acridity, pungency, venom, venomousness, venomness; astringency, severity, sternness, acerbity, austerity, stringency; harshness, sharpness, sourness, acidulousness, acidity,… …
96asperity — n 1. acrimony, acrimoniousness, causticity, mordancy, bitterness, acridity, acridness, pungency, venom, venomousness, venomness; astringency, severity, sternness, acerbity, austerity, stringency; harshness, sharpness, sourness, acidulousness,… …
97bitterness — n 1.(all usu. of taste) sourness, acidity, vinegariness, tartness, harshness, sharpness, acerbity. 2. resentment, grudge, animosity, hostility; indignation, pique, dudgeon; rancor, choler, anger, bile, spleen; gall, wormwood, gal! and wormwood. 3 …
98churlishness — n 1. rusticity, ruralism, agrarianism; pastoralism, pastorality, bucolicism; inurbanity, back woodsiness, provincialism, provinciality, yokelism, Sl. hickishness; hominess, homeliness, homishness, Inf. folksiness. 2. boorishness, loutishness,… …
99contumely — n 1. insult, affront, indignity, dishonor; contempt, scorn, derision, disdain, superciliousness; debasement, humiliation, degradation; abuse, scurrility, vituperation, invective, vulgarity; reproach, obloquy, calumny, opprobrium; sarcasm,… …
100corrosiveness — n causticity, causticness, mordancy, acridity, acridness, acrimoniousness, acidity, acidness, sharpness, bitingness; consumptiveness, devouringness, corrosivity, Chem. oxidizability; erosivity, ero siveness …
