Acrimony is bitter ill feeling between people. Without acrimony, a divorce full of acrimony, growing acrimony.
It belongs to disputes between people who were once close, which is why it appears so often with divorce and with splits in parties. The Latin behind it means sharpness or pungency, from the same root as acrid.
1nounacrimonyBitter ill feeling between people.
“The divorce ended in such acrimony that they now refuse to be in the same room.”
acrimony is a bitterness.
The Latin is sharp, the same sharpness in acid. Acrimony is the sharp taste left in the room between two people.
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Latin acrimonia means sharpness, from acer, sharp, the root of acrid.
Proto-Indo-European
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Latin
ācrimōnia
Middle French
acrimonie
English, today
acrimony
Borrowed from Middle French acrimonie, from Latin ācrimōnia. From Middle French acrimonie, from Latin ācrimōnia (“sharpness, pungency”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA