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saltness

saltness noun: the state or quality of being salt; saltiness.

Noun

saltness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being salt; saltiness.
    • Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath yet some of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time; and I humbly beseech your lordship to have a reverend care of your health.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...
    • Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it?1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 9:50

saltness meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Sanskrit

saltness in Tamil

state or quality of being salt
உவர்ப்பு uvarppu, கரிப்பு karippu

saltness in Urdu

شوریت

saltness in Telugu

saltness, brackishness, salt land
చవుడు cavuḍu

saltness in Sanskrit

saltness, the taste or property of salt
लावण्य lāvaṇya

Examples of saltness in a sentence

  • Take five or six salt Herrings, wash them very well, lay them in a pretty Quantity of Water all Night to take out the Saltness […]c. 1752, Elizabeth Moxon, “124. To make a Herring Pye of white salt Herrings”, in English Housewifry, Leeds, page 72:
  • The sea, perhaps because of its saltness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul.1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part I, page 13:
  • We found that we could get momentary relief by chewing pieces of raw seal meat and swallowing the blood, but thirst came back with redoubled force owing to the saltness of the flesh.1919, Ernest Shackleton, chapter 8, in South: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition, 1914-1917, London: Heinemann, page 137:

Origin of saltness

From Middle English saltenesse, saltnesse, from Old English sealtnes (“saltness”), equivalent to salt + -ness.

Questions about saltness

What does saltness mean?
Saltness means the state or quality of being salt; saltiness.
What is saltness in Tamil?
Saltness in Tamil is உவர்ப்பு (uvarppu), கரிப்பு (karippu). See Saltness meaning in Tamil.
How do you use saltness in a sentence?
Take five or six salt Herrings, wash them very well, lay them in a pretty Quantity of Water all Night to take out the Saltness […]
What part of speech is saltness?
Saltness is a noun.

Words near saltness in the dictionary

  1. saltmonger
  2. saltmongers
  3. saltmouth
  4. saltmouths
  5. saltmyrtle
  6. saltness
  7. Saltney
  8. salto
  9. salto mortale
  10. saltometer
  11. saltometers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saltness (page history and authors); saltness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); చవుడు (Telugu) (page history and authors); लावण्य (Sanskrit) (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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