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Definitions: Saltiness |
SaltinessNoun1. The taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth. 2. The property of containing salt (as a compound or in solution). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "saltiness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1912. (references) |
Synonyms: SaltinessSynonyms: salinity (n), salt (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pungency | Mustard, cayenne, caviare; seasoning. (condiment); niter, saltpeter, brine (saltiness) a; carbonate of ammonia; sal ammoniac, sal volatile, smelling salts; hartshorn (acridity) a. |
Saltiness | Noun: saltiness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Saltiness |
| English words defined with "saltiness": brackishness. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
William Shakespeare | Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Saltiness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Saltiness" is used about 12 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% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "saltiness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | ' (salty). (various references) | |
Danish | saltholdighed, salthed. (various references) | |
Dutch | zoutheid. (various references) | |
Finnish | suolaisuus (practical salinity, salinity). (various references) | |
French | salure (salinity). (various references) | |
German | Salzigkeit (salinity, saltness). (various references) | |
Greek | αλμύρα (salinity, saltness), αλμυρότησ (brackishness), αλμυρότητα (salinity). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מליחות (salinity). (various references) | |
Italian | sapore salato, salsedine. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鹹味 , 塩気 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しおけ (salt air, sea air), か"み (sugary taste, sweetness). (various references) | |
Manx | sailjys (brackishness, plain fare, salinity, saltness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | altinesssay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | salinidade (salinity). (various references) | |
Romanian | salinitate (salinity, salt), gust sãrat. (various references) | |
Russian | соленость (salinity). (various references) | |
Spanish | salinidad (salinity). (various references) | |
Swedish | sälta (salinity, salt, saltness). (various references) | |
Turkish | tuzluluk (salinity). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юorluk. (various references) | |
Ukranian | солоність (salinity). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự có muối tính chua chát, tính sắc sảo tính hóm hỉnh, tính mặn, tính châm chọc. (various references) | |
Welsh | helltni (saltness), halltedd (saltness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "saltiness": saltinesses. (additional references) | |
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"Saltiness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: saftiness, salties, saltings, Saltness, scaliness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: stainless. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-s-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: elastins, nailsets, salients, saltines, saltness, sestinas. | |
-2 letters: assents, elastin, enlists, entails, entasis, instals, lassies, listens, nailset, nasties, salient, salines, salties, saltine, sanseis, sestina, siestas, silanes, silents, sinless, slainte, tansies, tassels, tassies, tenails, tinsels, tisanes. | |
-3 letters: aisles, aliens, alines, anises, assent, assets, assist, elains, elints, enlist, entail, inlets, insets, instal, islets, istles, lasses, lassie, latens, leasts, lianes, listen, saints, saline, saltie, sanest, sanies, sansei, sasins, satins, siesta, silane, silent, sisals, slants, slates, sliest, snails, stains, stales, stanes, stases, stasis, steals, steins, stelai, stiles, tassel, tasses, tassie, tenail, tenias, teslas, tineal, tineas, tinsel, tisane. | |
-4 letters: aisle, alien, aline, alist, anile, anils, anise, antes, antis, asses, asset, easts, elain, elans, elint, entia, etnas, inlet, inset, isles, islet, istle, lanes, lases, lasts, laten, leans, leant, least, lenis, liane, liens, lines, lints, lists, litas, nails, nates, neats, neist, nests, nites, sails, sains, saint, sales, salts, sanes, sasin, sates, satin, satis, seals, seats, sensa, senti, setal, sials, silts, sines, sisal, sises, sites, slain, slant, slate, slats, slits, snail, snits, stain, stale, stane, steal, stein, stela, sties, stile, taels, tails, tains, tales, tasse, teals, telia, tenia, tesla, tiles, tinea, tines. | |
-5 letters: ails, ains, aits, ales, alit, alts, anes, anil, anis, ante, anti, ants, ates, east, eats, elan, etas, etna, ilea, isle, lain, lane, lase, lass, last, late, lati, lats, lean, leas, leis, lens, lent, less, lest, lets, lien, lies, line, lins, lint, list, lite, lits, nail, neat, ness, nest, nets, nils, nite, nits, sail, sain, sale, sals, salt, sane, sans, sass, sate, sati, seal, seas, seat, seis, sels, sent, seta, sets, sial, silt, sine, sins, site, sits, slat, slit, snit, tael, tail, tain, tale, tali, tans, tass, teal, teas, tela, tels, tens, ties, tile, tils, tine, tins. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-s-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: essentials, sensualist. | |
+2 letters: assoilments, beastliness, ghastliness, lastingness, saintliness, saltinesses, sensualists, stainlesses, stainlessly, stateliness, talkinesses. | |
+3 letters: antimissiles, essentialism, essentialist, faultinesses, inessentials, masterliness, paltrinesses, personalists, pliantnesses, salutariness, sensualistic, sensualities, shinplasters, solitariness, stealthiness, suitableness. | |
+4 letters: beastlinesses, dastardliness, delicatessens, earthlinesses, essentialisms, essentialists, essentializes, essentialness, estimableness, ethicalnesses, faithlessness, ghastlinesses, healthinesses, initialnesses, lastingnesses, lightfastness, literalnesses, miscellanists, mistranslates, neoclassicist, nonessentials, saintlinesses, salpingitises, seasonalities, sectionalisms, semifinalists, spiritualness, stablishments, statelinesses, tessellations, transmissible, typicalnesses, universalists, valiantnesses, versatileness, wealthinesses. | |
+5 letters: aldosteronisms, almightinesses, assaultiveness, criticalnesses, detailednesses, dilatorinesses, essentialities, establishments, faithfulnesses, fatherlinesses, flagitiousness, gelatinousness, habitualnesses, historicalness, idolatrousness, industrialises, insatiableness, literarinesses, literatenesses, masterlinesses, materialnesses, militantnesses, neoclassicists, neoplasticisms, neoplasticists, nonspecialists, outlandishness, palatialnesses, pitiablenesses, poeticalnesses, rationalnesses, salutarinesses, sensationalise, sensationalism, sensationalist, slatternliness, solitarinesses, stealthinesses, suitablenesses, tangiblenesses, towardlinesses, tranquilnesses, transsexualism, ultimatenesses, verticalnesses, volatilenesses. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101100 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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