辣;苦;狠毒;刻薄
Acridity \A*crid"i*ty\, Acridness \Ac"rid*ness\n. The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.
acridness n 1: extreme bitterness; "the acridity of alkali" [syn: {acridity}] 2: the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone [syn: {acridity}]