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Saltiness

noun

Language or humor that is down-to-earth. Synonym: coarseness. "Self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre"

The taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth. Synonyms: salinity, salt.

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

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"Saltiness" Quotes from Famous Books

... it, and then found how unsalty it was, for the thing you depended on it to preserve, had gone bad. The great need is for salty salt. There still seems to be a great lot of this saltless salt in use. It's labelled salt, and so it's used as salt, but it befools you. The saltiness has been lost out, and the man using it wakes up to find out how great is the loss, loss of what he thought he had salted, and loss of time, character and time, the character of that salted with saltless ...

— Quiet Talks on Following the Christ • S. D. Gordon

... mile that singular chase continued through the night. With every revolution of the screw, the banks to right and left seemed to recede, as the Thames grew wider and wider. A faint saltiness was perceptible in the air; and Stringer, moistening his dry lips, noted the ...

— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer