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astringency

1 8.4

A sharp taste that makes your mouth pucker and feel dry

noun
/əˈstrɪn.dʒən.si/

: astringencia

This growth in astringency is why, even though tea and wine have only a weak effect at first, sipping them throughout a fatty meal eventually enables the astringents to counterbalance the strong lubricating effect of the fat.
astringency of the tannins

Third is try and pick your plants that are high in colour and taste and astringency, bitterness.

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Examples

Third is try and pick your plants that are high in colour and taste and astringency, bitterness.

ZOE
Sweet tarts have an astringency to them that it's not just sour and sweet, it's also astringency.

Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy
The astringency of the unripe fruit made it difficult to enjoy its flavor.
Many red wines have a noticeable astringency that can make your mouth feel dry.
The tea had a pleasant astringency, which complemented its strong flavor.

Synonyms

astringence

vsastringency

Specialized

9.9

A sharp, puckering taste that makes your mouth feel dry, often in tea or wine

is the same sense but spelled differently in some varieties

Antonyms

sweetness

34 1.0

A pleasant sugary taste like ripe fruit or honey

Surface Forms

astringency singular

astringencies plural

Morphology

astringency = astringent (transparent) = astringent + ency

Standard derivation from the adjective 'astringent' to name the property or quality; meaning is directly predictable from the base.

Etymology

Astringency comes from the old Latin verb astringere ('to draw tight') and is related to English words like string and strict. So when food or drink has astringency it makes your mouth feel 'tight' or dry, which explains the puckering taste in strong tea or unripe fruit.