astringency
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker
Types & categories
- taste hypernym
Related & opposite
- astringent derivation
Sense 2 noun
the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids
Types & categories
- contractility hypernym
Related & opposite
- astringent attribute
- nonastringent attribute
- astringent derivation
- styptic derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | astringent |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | taste |
| 2 | attribute | Related & opposite | astringent |
| 2 | attribute | Related & opposite | nonastringent |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | astringent |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | styptic |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | contractility |