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toastiness

toastiness

3.8
A light roasted flavor or smell in food and drink
  • noun
  • /ˈtoʊstɪnəs/
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  • The wine had a delightful toastiness that enhanced its rich flavors.

Examples

  • The dish was praised for its perfect toastiness, giving it a lovely aroma.

  • And I see, you know, a lot of kind of peachy toastiness happening instead of really just gold.

  • It's got like some brown toastiness mixed with a little mauve little copper in there perhaps.

  • You could detect a subtle toastiness in the freshly baked bread that made it irresistible.

Antonyms

blandness
1 4.1

A lack of strong taste in food

How Toasty

burned
1.0
burning
157 1.0
toastiness
3.8
browning
1 3.3
rawness
3 5.5

Surface Forms

toastiness singular
toastinesses plural

Morphology

toastiness = toasty (transparent) = toast + y + ness

Adding '-ness' to the adjective 'toasty' yields a noun meaning 'the quality of being toasty', which is a regular, transparent derivation.

Etymology

Toastiness comes from toast, which means 'to brown by heat', and it helps to think of a toaster browning bread. That's why toastiness also describes the toasted, roasted taste or smell you find in food and drink.