acridity

Plural: acridities

Noun

• A sharp, bitter, or harsh quality.
• having an acrid smell
• extreme bitterness
  • "the acridity of alkali"
• the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone
• Bitterness or acerbity.
• An acrid taste or smell.
• Bitterness in speech or behavior; causticness.

Examples

• The acridity of his challenge was met with the calm turning of a dictionary page.

Synonyms

acridness