saltiness

1. 1.

   language or humor that is down-to-earth

   “the saltiness of their language was inappropriate”

   “self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre”

   Synonymscoarseness

   Broaderexpressive style
2. 2.

   the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

   Synonymssaltsalinity

   Broadertaste
3. 3.

   the property of containing salt (as a compound or in solution)

   Broaderproperty

   Narrowerbrininessbrackishness

   solution

Other forms of saltiness

plural

saltinesses·

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 saltiness

What does saltiness mean?

saltiness means "language or humor that is down-to-earth". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in saltiness?

saltiness has 3 syllables: sal-ti-ness. The stress falls on "sal".

What is another word for saltiness?

Close synonyms include coarseness, salt, salinity. 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 saltiness a common word?

saltiness 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.