astringency

1. 1.

   a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker

   Synonymsastringence

   Broadertaste
2. 2.

   the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids

   Synonymsstypsis

   Broadercontractility

Other forms of astringency

plural

astringencies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about astringency

What does astringency mean?

astringency means "a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in astringency?

astringency has 4 syllables: a-strin-gen-cy. The stress falls on "strin".

What is another word for astringency?

Close synonyms include astringence, stypsis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is astringency a common word?

astringency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.