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salti·ness

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. saltiness, coarsenessnoun

    language or humor that is down-to-earth

    "the saltiness of their language was inappropriate"; "self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre"

  2. salt, saltiness, salinitynoun

    the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

  3. saltinessnoun

    the property of containing salt (as a compound or in solution)

Wiktionary

  1. saltinessnoun

    The property of being, or tasting, salty.

Wikipedia

  1. saltiness

    The gustatory system or sense of taste is the sensory system that is partially responsible for the perception of taste (flavor). Taste is the perception produced or stimulated when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with taste receptor cells located on taste buds in the oral cavity, mostly on the tongue. Taste, along with olfaction and trigeminal nerve stimulation (registering texture, pain, and temperature), determines flavors of food and other substances. Humans have taste receptors on taste buds and other areas, including the upper surface of the tongue and the epiglottis. The gustatory cortex is responsible for the perception of taste. The tongue is covered with thousands of small bumps called papillae, which are visible to the naked eye. Within each papilla are hundreds of taste buds. The exception to this is the filiform papillae that do not contain taste buds. There are between 2000 and 5000 taste buds that are located on the back and front of the tongue. Others are located on the roof, sides and back of the mouth, and in the throat. Each taste bud contains 50 to 100 taste receptor cells. Taste receptors in the mouth sense the five taste modalities: sweetness, sourness, saltiness, bitterness, and savoriness (also known as savory or umami). Scientific experiments have demonstrated that these five tastes exist and are distinct from one another. Taste buds are able to distinguish between different tastes through detecting interaction with different molecules or ions. Sweet, savoriness, and bitter tastes are triggered by the binding of molecules to G protein-coupled receptors on the cell membranes of taste buds. Saltiness and sourness are perceived when alkali metal or hydrogen ions enter taste buds, respectively.The basic taste modalities contribute only partially to the sensation and flavor of food in the mouth—other factors include smell, detected by the olfactory epithelium of the nose; texture, detected through a variety of mechanoreceptors, muscle nerves, etc.; temperature, detected by thermoreceptors; and "coolness" (such as of menthol) and "hotness" (pungency), through chemesthesis. As the gustatory system senses both harmful and beneficial things, all basic taste modalities are classified as either aversive or appetitive, depending upon the effect the things they sense have on the body. Sweetness helps to identify energy-rich foods, while bitterness serves as a warning sign of poisons.Among humans, taste perception begins to fade at an older age because of loss of tongue papillae and a general decrease in saliva production. Humans can also have distortion of tastes (dysgeusia). Not all mammals share the same taste modalities: some rodents can taste starch (which humans cannot), cats cannot taste sweetness, and several other carnivores including hyenas, dolphins, and sea lions, have lost the ability to sense up to four of their ancestral five taste modalities.

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  1. saltiness

    Saltiness is one of the basic five tastes perceived by the human tongue, typically associated with the flavor of food or drink that contains a high amount of salt, or sodium chloride. It is an essential sensory experience related to eating and is identified by receptors on the taste buds.

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  1. saintless

  2. slatiness

  3. stainless

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of saltiness in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of saltiness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of saltiness in a Sentence

  1. Francesco Agopyan:

    It has the typical sweetness of a crab, combined with a sapid, savory flavor due to the saltiness of the lagoon waters, it is a very popular dish, especially among Venetians but also by others. It's a special dish.

  2. Marta Becker:

    Some sensations of our food — spicy hot pepper, mintiness — are things we experience with the hot and cold sensors of our mouth, you can get the acid, heat, even saltiness, but not the layers of things like cilantro and chipotle.

  3. Christopher Mankovich:

    The fuzzy cores are like a sludge, the hydrogen and helium gas in the planet gradually mix with more and more ice and rock as you move toward the planet's center. It's a bit like parts of Earth's oceans where the saltiness increases as you get to deeper and deeper levels, creating a stable configuration.

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