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Acerbity is the noun: the quality of being acerbic — that sharp, bitter cleverness in someone’s criticism. Readers talk about the acerbity of a column or a review. It is a formal, word. In ordinary speech, people more often say how acerbic someone is, or they just call the remarks harsh. Though actually, like acerbic, it sits on Latin acerbus, “bitter,” so the sour-taste picture is still inside the word, even when we are talking about comments, not food.
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組成Borrowed from French acerbité, from Latin acerbitās (“harshness, bitterness”), from acerbus (“bitter”). The English noun ending matches -ity.
同家族的字
- acerbicthe usual adjective for this quality
- exacerbatefrom the same Latin acerbus; to make a problem more bitter or more severe
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
acerbitynoun/əˈsɜːbɪti/
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Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
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Harshness, bitterness, or severity.
- acerbity of temper, of language, of pain
- “Well ?” I repeated with some acerbity. I had been wondering for the last ten minutes how many more knots he would manage to make in that same bit of string before he actually started undoing them again.
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Something harsh (e.g. a remark, act or experience).
- […] the recollection of that yesterday […] made him bear with the meekness and patience of a true-hearted man all the worrying little acerbities of to-day;
- This opera was mainly in the style of late Puccini, with acerbities stolen from Stravinsky.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。