NOUN | cognition | sourness, sour, tartness | the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth |
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attribute | sourness, sour, acidity | the property of being acidic | |
attribute | sourness, sulkiness, sullenness, moroseness | a sullen moody resentful disposition |
Meaning | The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth. | |
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Synonyms | sour, tartness | |
Narrower | acidity, acidulousness | The taste experience when something acidic is taken into the mouth |
Broader | taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception | The sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus |
Spanish | agrura | |
Catalan | agre, agresa, agror | |
Adjectives | sour | one of the four basic taste sensations |
Meaning | The property of being acidic. | |
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Synonyms | sour, acidity | |
Narrower | acerbity, tartness | A sharp sour taste |
vinegariness, vinegarishness | A sourness resembling that of vinegar / vinegar | |
Broader | taste property | A property appreciated via the sense of taste |
Spanish | acedía, acidez | |
Adjectives | sour | having a sharp biting taste / taste |
sour | smelling of fermentation or staleness | |
sour | in an unpalatable state | |
sour | one of the four basic taste sensations |
Meaning | A sullen moody resentful disposition. | |
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Synonyms | sulkiness, sullenness, moroseness | |
Broader | ill nature | A disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition |
Spanish | hosquedad | |
Adjectives | sour | showing a brooding ill humor |
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