Usually means: Resentment from perceived wrongs experienced.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word Bitterness:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. bitterness: Merriam-Webster
  2. bitterness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bitterness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bitterness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Bitterness, bitterness: Wordnik
  6. bitterness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. bitterness: Wiktionary
  8. Bitterness, bitterness: Dictionary.com
  9. bitterness: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Bitterness (taste), Bitterness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Bitterness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. bitterness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. bitterness: Rhymezone
  14. bitterness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. bitterness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. bitterness: FreeDictionary.org
  17. bitterness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. bitterness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Bitterness (emotion), bitterness: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bitterness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bitterness: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. bitterness: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bitterness: Idioms

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  1. Beer & Brewing Terminology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bitterness)

▸ noun:  The quality of having a bitter taste.
▸ noun:  The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment; the quality of exhibiting such feelings.
▸ noun:  The quality of eliciting a bitter, humiliating or harsh feeling.
▸ noun:  Harsh cold.

Similar:
acerbity, acrimony, rancor, Rancour, resentment, jaundice, gall, bitterishness, acidity, embitteredness, more...

Opposite:
sweetness, joy, contentment, happiness, pleasure

Types:
astringent, bitter, acrid, sour, acetic, metallic, salty, more...

Phrases:
with bitterness, caused bitterness, apathy bitterness, opposite of bitterness, mean hurtful bitterness, more...

Adjectives:
much, great, such, own, intense, personal, extreme, little, old, considerable, deep

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Similar:
acerbity, acrimony, rancor, Rancour, resentment, jaundice, gall, bitterishness, acidity, embitteredness, more...

Opposite:
sweetness, joy, contentment, happiness, pleasure

Types:
astringent, bitter, acrid, sour, acetic, metallic, salty, more...

Phrases:
with bitterness, caused bitterness, apathy bitterness, opposite of bitterness, mean hurtful bitterness, more...

Adjectives:
much, great, such, own, intense, personal, extreme, little, old, considerable, deep

Colors:
    olive,     mustard,     chartreuse,     khaki,     taupe, more...



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