sourness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sour=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

sourness, n. 

 The quality or state of being sour.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

sourness

Faustianism, acerbity, acidity, acidulousness, acridity, acridness, acrimony, anger, animosity, animus, asperity, astringence, astringency, atonalism, atonality, bad blood, bad humor, bad temper, bile, biliousness, bitingness, bitter feeling, bitter pill, bitterness, cacophony, causticity, choler, clinker, cold comfort, corrosiveness, cuttingness, disappointment, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, discord, discordance, discordancy, disgruntlement, disharmony, dissatisfaction, dissatisfiedness, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, divine discontent, edge, envy, feud, flatness, gall, gall and wormwood, hard feelings, harshness, ill blood, ill feeling, ill humor, ill nature, ill temper, ill will, inharmoniousness, inharmony, keenness, mordancy, off note, peevishness, petulance, piquancy, poignancy, pungency, querulousness, rancor, rebelliousness, resentment, restiveness, restlessness, roughness, severity, sharpness, soreness, sour note, spleen, stridor, sulkiness, tartness, trenchancy, tunelessness, uneasiness, unfulfillment, unhappiness, unharmoniousness, unmusicality, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, untunefulness, vendetta, venom, vexation of spirit, virulence, vitriol, wolf

ROGET THESAURUS

sourness

Bitterness

N bitterness, acridness, acridity, acrimony, caustic, alkali, acerbity, gall, wormwood, bitters, astringent bitters, Angostura, aromatic bitters, sourness, pungency, alkaloids, turmeric, bitter, bitterish, acrid, acerb, acerbic, bitter as gall, bitter pill to take, sugar coating on a bitter pill.

Sourness

N sourness, acid, acidity, low pH, acetous fermentation, lactic fermentation, vinegar, verjuice, crab, alum, acetic acid, lactic acid, sour, acid, acidulous, acidulated, tart, crabbed, acetous, acetose, acerb, acetic, sour as vinegar, sourish, acescent, subacid, styptic, hard, rough, sour as a lemon, (4) Odor.