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Definition: Astringency |
AstringencyNoun1. A sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker. 2. The ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "astringency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
Synonyms: AstringencySynonyms: astringence (n), stypsis (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contraction | Condensation, compression, compactness; compendium; squeezing; Verb: strangulation; corrugation; astringency; astringents, sclerotics; contractility, compressibility; coarctation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Astringency |
| English words defined with "astringency": Astriction ♦ Restringency ♦ Stypticity. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "astringency": Restringency. (references) |
| "Astringency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Astringency" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "astringency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "敛性 (Astringent, Astringently). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | astringence. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Verstopfung (block, blockage, constipation, engorgement, jam, obstruction, occlusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στυπτικότησ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | keciutan (narrowness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | occlusione (blockage, constipation, engorgement, obstruction, occlusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 収斂 (contraction, convergence, extraction), 渋味 (good taste, refinement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しぶみ (good taste, refinement), しゅうれ" (contraction, convergence, culture, discipline, drill, extraction, heavy taxation, practice, training). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 수 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astringencyay adstringência. (various references) astringenţã (acerbity). (various references) терпкость (acerbity, astrigency). (various references) austeridad (austerity, dourness, severity), astringencia. (various references) суворість (asperity, austerity, cruelty, hardness, inclemency, rigidity, rigor, rigour, rudeness, strictness, stringency), строгість (austerity), терпкість (acerbity, austerity), в'яжучий засіб (astringent). (various references) tính nghiêm khắc (rigorism, rigour, severity, strictness), tính khắc khổ (straitness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Astringency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: astringens, Oestringen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "astringency" (pronounced 'As*trin"gen*cy'): Abbacy, Abeyancy, Abhorrency, Absorbency, Abstinency, Acceptancy, Accordancy, Accountancy, Accumbency, Accuracy, Acquiescency, Acritochromacy, Adequacy, Adherency, Adjutancy, Adolescency, Advocacy, Aeromancy, Affluency, Agency, Aldermancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alliciency, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Alternacy, -ancy, Antecedency, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Apparency, Appellancy, Appetency, Applicancy, Archiepiscopacy, Ardency, ARISTOCRACY, Arithmancy, Arithmomancy, Arrogancy, Aruspicy, Ascendency, Assurgency, Astragalomancy, Athermancy, Attendancy, Austromancy, Autocracy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-n-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: stringency, transgenic, transiency. | |
-2 letters: ancientry, cannister, cantering, centrings, encysting, estraying, gannister, insectary, recanting, recasting, tyrannies, tyrannise, yearnings. | |
-3 letters: aginners, agrestic, ancestry, ancients, angriest, antigens, argentic, astringe, canister, canniest, catering, centring, ceratins, cigarets, cisterna, crannies, creasing, creating, creatins, cresting, cyanines, cyanites, earnings, enacting, encasing, engrains, ensigncy, entrains, ergastic, ganister, gantries, gentians, granites, grannies, ingrates. | |
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