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souredness en · NOUN

Etymology

From soured + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of having become sour.
    • In his Satires we find what we may call a mellowed souredness of spirit, like the taste of the plum or sloe when touched by the first frosts. 1861, Thomas Wyatt, The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt, page xvi: