'astringency' definitions:
Definition of 'astringency'
(from WordNet)
noun
A sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker [syn: astringency, astringence]
noun
The ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids [syn: astringency, stypsis]
Synonyms of 'astringency'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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