"tartness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tartnesses [plural]
Etymology: Middle English *tartnesse, from Old English teartnes (“sharpness, severity, asperity”), equivalent to tart + -ness. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|*tartnesse}} Middle English *tartnesse, {{inh|en|ang|teartnes|t=sharpness, severity, asperity}} Old English teartnes (“sharpness, severity, asperity”), {{suf|en|tart|ness}} tart + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} tartness (countable and uncountable, plural tartnesses)
  1. The characteristic of being tart; sharpness of taste Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Taste Synonyms: sourness, bitterness, tartnesse [obsolete] Translations (characteristic of being tart): тръпчивост (trǎpčivost) (Bulgarian), სიმჟავე (simžave) (Georgian), Säuerlichkeit [feminine] (German), Bitterkeit [feminine] (German), ácido (Spanish), sinsabor (Spanish), agudo (Spanish)

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