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Saltiness

noun

Language or humor that is down-to-earth. Synonym: coarseness. "Self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre"

The taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth. Synonyms: salinity, salt.

The property of containing salt (as a compound or in solution).

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Etymology of 'Saltiness'

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"Saltiness" Quotes from Famous Books

... canon continues, until it joins the channel of the Indian village. Following a distance of three leagues in an east-northeast direction, it enters another bay[78] with a depth of thirteen brazas, diminishing to four where some rivers[79] empty and take the saltiness of the water which there becomes sweet, the same as in a lake. The rivers come, one from the east-northeast (this is the largest, about two hundred and fifty yards wide), the other, which has many branches, comes from the northeast through tulares and swamps in very low land, the channels ...

— The March of Portola • Zoeth S. Eldredge

Words linked to "Saltiness" : expressive style, property, brininess, taste perception, brackishness, salty, solution, taste, gustatory perception, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, style, salt