CORROSIVENESS Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

corrosiveness

noun

Definition of corrosiveness

as in bitterness

biting sharpness of feeling or expression the unconscionable corrosiveness with which he voiced his criticisms diminished their value and effectiveness

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Noun

As olives ripen, their oil content increases, texture softens and flavor becomes milder and less bitter – with the bitterness due to naturally occurring compounds called oleuropeins.

— Daryl Austin, USA Today, 11 July 2026
Mexican Americans have long risen up to defend ourselves and defy our haters, but there’s usually an underlying strain of bitterness and anger that kneecaps us at the worst possible moments.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026

Definition of bitterness

Noun

Newcastle feared an even more punitive settlement and spent months in dialogue and face-to-face meetings with UEFA officials to try to reduce the severity of the punishments.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 18 July 2026
Scientists say climate change from human activities is making conditions like drought more common, thus increasing the size, frequency and severity of wildfires.

— Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026

Definition of severity

Noun

Renewed hostilities in the Persian Gulf also complicate the resumption of refining in the Middle East.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
However, Democratic lawmakers have denounced the resumption of the Iran war and the return to active hostilities, despite the interim cease-fire agreement signed June 17.

— Callum Sutherland, Time, 14 July 2026

Definition of hostility

Noun

That's because the compounds that are found in red wine (the one's that are full of acidity and produce a dye-like substance) don't have as much time to set in.

— Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 13 July 2026
Like the perfect peach, your fruit salad should dance between acidity and sweetness.

— Cooking Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

Definition of acidity

Noun

Google also mentioned that the system could do more general hypothesizing that doesn’t involve drugs, using an example of the spread of virulence genes in bacteria.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026
Flu has overtaken covid in infections and hospitalizations during the winter respiratory virus season, and their virulence is becoming similar.

— Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2026

Definition of virulence

Noun

Employees told Fillmore during the early 2022 meeting that Shapiro had recently injured a patient’s common bile duct, a small tube that carries bile from the liver and gallbladder to the small intestine, during surgery.

— Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 16 July 2026
His second-guessing doesn’t stanch his inner torrent of bile, which continues through dinner with Irène and her mother, and goes on for another fifteen pages of emotional hypotheticals and conditionals.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026

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