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astringency

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun astringency has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

astringencyn. 
     The quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contraction of the organic textures; as, the astringency of tannin.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

astringency

Spartanism, abbreviation, acerbity, acidity, acidulousness, acridity, acridness, acrimony, asperity, astriction, astringence, austerity, authoritarianism, bite, bitingness, bitter pill, bitterness, bottleneck, causticity, cervix, circumscription, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, consolidation, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, curtailment, cuttingness, decrease, demandingness, diminuendo, discipline, edge, exactingness, fierceness, gall, gall and wormwood, grimness, grip, hardness, harshness, hourglass, hourglass figure, inclemency, isthmus, keenness, knitting, meticulousness, mordacity, mordancy, narrow place, narrowing, neck, piquancy, poignancy, point, puckering, pungency, pursing, reduction, regimentation, rigid discipline, rigor, roughness, ruggedness, severity, sharpness, shortening, solidification, sourness, sternness, sting, stranglement, strangulation, striction, strictness, stricture, stridency, stringency, systole, tartness, teeth, toughness, trenchancy, ungentleness, vehemence, violence, virulence, wasp waist, wrinkling

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Contraction

N contraction, reduction, diminution, decrease of size, defalcation, decrement, lessening, shrinking, compaction, tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy, systole, neck, hourglass, condensation, compression, compactness, compendium, squeezing, strangulation, corrugation, astringency, astringents, sclerotics, contractility, compressibility, coarctation, inferiority in size, contracting, astringent, shrunk, contracted, strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted, waning, neap, compact, unexpanded &c (expand), contractile, compressible, smaller &c (small).

Acridity

N acridity, astringency, bite, tear gas, smoke, acrid fumes, acrid, biting, astringent, sharp, harsh, bitter, (5) Sound (i) SOUND IN GENERAL.

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