tartness as a noun: - 1
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tartness
noun
1 tartness
The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth.
synonyms: sour, sourness.
Polish: cierpkość
2 tartness
A sharp sour taste.
synonym: acerbity.
Roget 901:
irascibility,
irascibleness,
temper;
crossness
etc.
adj.;
susceptibility,
procacity,
petulance,
irritability,
tartness,
acerbity,
protervity;
pugnacity
etc.
(contentiousness)
720.
excitability
etc.
825;
bad temper,
fiery temper,
crooked temper,
irritable
etc.
adj..
temper;
genus irritabile [Lat.],
hot blood.
ill humor
etc.
(sullenness)
901.1;
asperity
&c.;
churlishness
etc.
(discourtesy)
895.
huff
etc.
(resentment)
900;
a word and a blow.
Sir Fretful Plagiary;
brabbler†,
Tartar;
shrew,
vixen,
virago,
termagant,
dragon,
scold,
Xantippe;
porcupine;
spitfire;
fire eater
etc.
(blusterer)
887;
fury
etc.
(violent person)
173.
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3 tartness
A rough and bitter manner.
synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, jaundice, thorniness.
Roget 895:
discourtesy;
ill breeding;
ill manners,
bad manners,
ungainly manners;
insuavity†;
uncourteousness†,
etc.
adj.;
rusticity,
inurbanity†;
illiberality,
incivility displacency†.
disrespect
etc.
929;
procacity†,
impudence: barbarism,
barbarity;
misbehavior,
brutality,
blackguardism†,
conduct unbecoming a gentleman,
grossieret_e,
brusquerie†;
vulgarity,
etc.
851.
churlishness
etc.
adj.;
spinosity†,
perversity;
moroseness
etc.
(sullenness)
901.1.
sternness
etc.
adj.;
austerity;
moodishness†,
captiousness
etc.
901;
cynicism;
tartness
etc.
adj.;
acrimony,
acerbity,
virulence,
asperity.
scowl,
black looks,
frown;
short answer,
rebuff;
hard words,
contumely;
unparliamentary language,
personality.
bear,
bruin,
brute,
blackguard,
beast;
unlicked cub†;
frump,
crosspatch†;
saucebox
etc.
887†;
crooked stick;
grizzly.
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Dutch: bitsheid, boosheid, bitterheid
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