About The Word Astringency

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Astringency

Astringency Meaning & Definition
Astringency Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Astringency?

[n] the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids
[n] a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker

Synonyms | Synonyms for Astringency: astringence | stypsis

Related Terms | Find terms related to Astringency: abbreviation | acerbity | acidity | acidulousness | acridity | acridness | acrimony | asperity | astriction | astringence | austerity | authoritarianism | bite | bitingness | bitter pill | bitterness | bottleneck | causticity | cervix | circumscription | coarctation | compactedness | compaction | compression | compressure | concentration | condensation | consolidation | constriction | constringency | contraction | contracture | curtailment | cuttingness | decrease | demandingness | diminuendo | discipline | edge | exactingness | fierceness | gall | gall and wormwood | grimness | grip | hardness | harshness | hourglass | hourglass figure | inclemency | isthmus | keenness | knitting | meticulousness | mordacity | mordancy | narrow place | narrowing | neck | piquancy | poignancy | point | puckering | pungency | pursing | reduction | regimentation | rigid discipline | rigor | roughness | ruggedness | severity | sharpness | shortening | solidification | sourness | Spartanism | sternness | sting | stranglement | strangulation | striction | strictness | stricture | stridency | stringency | systole | tartness | teeth | toughness | trenchancy | ungentleness | vehemence | violence | virulence | wasp waist | wrinkling

See Also | contractility | gustatory perception | gustatory sensation | taste | taste perception | taste sensation

Astringency In Webster's Dictionary

\As*trin"gen*cy\ ([a^]s*tr[i^]n"jen*s[y^]), n. The quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contraction of the organic textures; as, the astringency of tannin.

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