Usually means: Sensation of dryness, puckering mouth.
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  1. astringency: Merriam-Webster
  2. astringency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. astringency: Collins English Dictionary
  4. astringency: Vocabulary.com
  5. astringency: Wordnik
  6. astringency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. astringency: Wiktionary
  8. Astringency, astringency: Dictionary.com
  9. Astringency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Astringency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. astringency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. astringency: Rhymezone
  13. Astringency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. astringency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. astringency: FreeDictionary.org
  16. astringency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. astringency: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. astringency: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. astringency: Legal dictionary

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  1. astringency: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. astringency: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. astringency: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (astringency)

▸ noun:  An astringent taste.
▸ noun:  That which acts as an astringent, causing contraction of soft tissue to restrict the flow of blood.

Similar:
astringence, stypsis, austereness, acridity, deastringency, stypticity, stringency, bitterness, tartness, acidity, more...

Opposite:
smoothness, mildness, softness, gentleness

Types:
puckering, tart, sour, tangy, dry, bitter, astringent, more...

Adjectives:
slight, little, certain, great, mild, more, natural, considerable, powerful, relative, strong

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Similar:
astringence, stypsis, austereness, acridity, deastringency, stypticity, stringency, bitterness, tartness, acidity, more...

Opposite:
smoothness, mildness, softness, gentleness

Types:
puckering, tart, sour, tangy, dry, bitter, astringent, more...

Adjectives:
slight, little, certain, great, mild, more, natural, considerable, powerful, relative, strong



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