piquancy
piquancy noun: the degree to which something is piquant, stimulating or exciting.
Noun
piquancy (countable and uncountable, plural piquancies)
- The degree to which something is piquant, stimulating or exciting.
- At fifteen, her poetry of feeling (you see I do my best to please you with a phrase) would just give piquancy and freshness to her entry into life; but at twenty,...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 197–198
- There was a certain playfulness about her too, such a piquancy or ironic suggestion, such an untouched reserve.1920, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love
piquancy meaning in Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
piquancy in Tamil
- சுவாரசியம், இன்சுவைக் கிளர்ச்சி, தூண்டல்
piquancy in Marathi
- piquancy; spiciness; savory sharpness, especially the appetising quality imparted by spices, tempering, or seasoning
- खमंगाई khamaṅgāī
piquancy in Urdu
- لطف, تیزی
Forms of piquancy
| plural | piquancies |
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Origin of piquancy
From piquant + -cy.
Questions about piquancy
- What does piquancy mean?
- Piquancy means the degree to which something is piquant, stimulating or exciting.
- What is piquancy in Tamil?
- Piquancy in Tamil is சுவாரசியம், இன்சுவைக் கிளர்ச்சி, தூண்டல். See Piquancy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is piquancy?
- Piquancy is a noun.
- What is the plural of piquancy?
- The plural of piquancy is piquancies.
Words near piquancy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: piquancy (page history and authors); piquancy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); खमंगाई (Marathi) (page history and authors); piquancy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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