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Astringence

Definition: Astringence

Astringence

Noun

1. A sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Astringence

Synonym: astringency (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Astringence

Language Translations for "astringence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Strenge (absoluteness, astringences, austerity, hardness, harshness, intenseness, intensity, pungency, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, severity, sterness, sternness, stiffness, strictness, stringency, stringently, tightness, topmast). (various references)

   

Italian

  

severità (astringences, austerity, harshness, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency, topmast). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

astringenceay

   

Spanish

  

aspereza (abruptness, acerbity, acridness, asperity, astringences, harshness, rawness, roughness, scragginess, sharpness, sourness, surliness, topmast). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Astringence

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-i-n-n-r-s-t"

-1 letter: argentines, nectarines, reenacting, regnancies, tangencies, tangerines, transgenic, transience.

-2 letters: agentries, ancienter, antigenes, argentine, canneries, cannister, cantering, careening, centering, centiares, centrings, cisternae, creatines, entrances, gannister, gentrices, gratinees, ignescent, incenters, iterances, narceines, nectaries, nectarine, recanting, recasting, renascent, renesting, reseating, resecting, resenting, screening, secerning, secreting, stingaree, tangences, tangerine, tanneries, tenancies.

-3 letters: agencies, agenetic, aginners, agrestic, ancients.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-g-i-n-n-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: interchanges.

 

+2 letters: astringencies, cogenerations, interchangers, intransigence.

 

+3 letters: deconsecrating, intransigeance, intransigences, reconsecrating.

 

+4 letters: antiallergenics, intransigeances.

 

+5 letters: counterespionage, countersignature, micromanagements, overcompensating.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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