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Noun bitterness has 4 senses
- resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour - a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
--1 is a kind of hostility, enmity, ill will
--1 has particulars:
- bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice - a sharp and bitter manner
--2 is a kind of disagreeableness
- bitter, bitterness - the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
--3 is a kind of taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception
- bitterness, bitter - the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
--4 is a kind of taste property
--4 has particulars: acerbity; acridity, acridness
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