acidity
noun
the quality or state of being acid.
acidities
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pluralof acidity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Mother herself, played with benign obliviousness by Carolyn McCormick, utters streams of soothing phrases, ignoring both her husband’s acidities and her children’s increasing discomfort.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2014
If peak acidities rather than long-term averages are what matters most, natural variability could make things worse.
From Economist ● Jul. 1, 2010
Percy Hammond: "Excepting the soft acidities of Mr. Strachey's investigation, it is the most entertaining, so far as we know, of the impudent annals of its exemplary topic."
From Time Magazine Archive
The most celebrated is Dorothy Parker, essentially a short-story writer whose glib acidities at and near the Algonquin Round Table gave her a legendary reputation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Absorbents.—Medicines which destroy acidities in the stomach and bowels; such as chalk, magnesia, etc.
From Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure by Robert Jennings
