Astringency

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Astringency \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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  astringency
       n 1: a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a
            substance causes the mouth to pucker [syn: {astringence}]
       2: the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues
          to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids [syn:
          {stypsis}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  97 Moby Thesaurus words for "astringency":
     Spartanism, 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, sternness, sting,
     stranglement, strangulation, striction, strictness, stricture,
     stridency, stringency, systole, tartness, teeth, toughness,
     trenchancy, ungentleness, vehemence, violence, virulence,
     wasp waist, wrinkling