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Astringency

noun
1.
A sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker.  Synonym: astringence.
2.
The ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids.  Synonym: stypsis.





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"Astringency" Quotes from Famous Books



... has a poetic gift sufficient to warm the record with fine verses and delicate susceptibilities upon which his adventures leave exquisite impressions. Even when his rebellion is at its highest pitch he wastes little energy in hating and so avoids the astringency and perturbation of a state of mind which is always perilous. To say Felix Fay is more or less to mean Floyd Dell, for the narrative is obviously autobiographic at many points. But were it entirely invention it would testify none the less to the affection ...
— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren


Words linked to "Astringency" :   taste perception, gustatory perception, stypsis, taste sensation, nonastringent, taste, gustatory sensation, contractility, astringent


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