spiciness

1. 1.

   the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored

   Synonymsspicespicery

   Broadertaste property

   Narrowerpungencyniphotness
2. 2.

   behavior or language bordering on indelicacy

   Synonymsgaminessracinessribaldry

   Broaderindelicacy

Other forms of spiciness

plural

spicinesses·

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 spiciness

What does spiciness mean?

spiciness means "the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spiciness?

spiciness has 3 syllables: spi-ci-ness. The stress falls on "spi".

What is another word for spiciness?

Close synonyms include spice, spicery, gaminess, raciness, ribaldry. 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 spiciness a common word?

spiciness 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.