What is another word for causticity?

Pronunciation: [kɔːstˈɪsɪti] (IPA)

The term 'causticity' refers to the ability to burn or corrode organic tissues or materials. In a broader sense, it may be used figuratively to indicate a harsh or bitter quality in speaking or writing. Some synonyms for this sense of the word include acidity, acerbity, scathing, cutting, biting, trenchant, sarcastic, and sardonic. Other synonyms for the literal sense include corrosiveness, erosiveness, destructiveness, and alkalinity, while more informal alternatives might include burniness, searingness, or stinginess. Whatever the context, it's important to choose the most precise and appropriate term for the situation in order to convey the intended meaning as accurately as possible.

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Usage examples for Causticity

The French critics are not loath to display their acumen in reviewing the works of their compatriots, for they not only analyze the demerits with pungent causticity, but apply to them the severest of all tests, that of ridicule; in the use of which dangerous weapon they excel.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner
With his usual causticity Herder characterised the manner of the two chief contributors.
"The Youth of Goethe"
Peter Hume Brown
Lenglet du Fresnoy is not a writer merely laborious; without genius, he still has a hardy originality in his manner of writing and of thinking; and his vast and restless curiosity fermenting his immense book-knowledge, with a freedom verging on cynical causticity, led to the pursuit of uncommon topics.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)"
Isaac Disraeli

Famous quotes with Causticity

  • The quantitative investigations of Black on the burning of lime and magnesia alba, in which the balance (previously characterized by the French chemist Jean Rey as "an instrument for clowns") was applied at every turn, led to the rejection of a hypothetical "principle of causticity," and replaced it by a "sensible ingredient of a sensible body," fixed air.
    J. R. Partington

Related words: caustic water, caustic substance, caustic soda, chemical equations and causticity, causticity of substances, how to calculate causticity, basic concepts of chemical thermodynamics

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