Causticity

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /kɔːˈstɪsáµ»ti/

Origin

From caustic + -ity.

Full definition of causticity

Noun

1. The quality of being physically caustic; burning, corrosive.
2. (figuratively) Being caustic in speech, humour etc.
• 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 65:He had not, he remarked with crushing causticity to one of his ministers, liberated France ‘to worry about the macaroni ration’.