spiciness
(ˈspaɪsɪnɪs)
[f. spicy a. + -ness.]
The quality of being spicy (esp. in fig. senses).
| 1633 Herbert Temple, Odour iii, That these two words might creep and grow To some degree of spicinesse to thee! 1655 Vaughan Silex Scint. (1858) 81 Cold showers nipt and wrung Their spiciness and bloud. 1730 Bailey (fol.), Aromaticalness, Spiciness. 1876 World V. 11 Our English language does not lend itself so easily as the French to meretricious spiciness of phrase. 1895 Outing XXVII. 38 There is a spiciness in the fact. |