Thesaurus:spiciness

Thesaurus

spiciness

English

Noun

Sense: the quality of being spicy

Synonyms

• bite
• piquance
• piquancy
• pungency
• spiciness
• tang

Antonyms

• blandness
• dullness
• mildness

Hypernyms

• flavour    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• pepperiness

See also

• Thesaurus:spicy

Further reading

• “392. pungency” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “spiciness” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.