saltness

[ sawlt-nis ]

noun

1. the state or quality of being salt or salty.

Word History and Origins

Origin of saltness¹

before 900; Middle English saltnesse; Old English sealtnes. See salt ¹, -ness

Example Sentences

They gave him meat and drink in plenty, and the comfort of firelight and the comfort of human voices speaking his own Hardic tongue, and last and best they gave him hot water to wash the cold and saltness of the sea from him, and a bed where he could sleep.

From Literature

Hardly: evaporation is probably the true secret of its disappearance: and that this is the reason is proved by the greater saltness of the Mediterranean as compared with the Atlantic.

From Project Gutenberg

A new civic spirit must pervade the people as the saltness the sea.

From Project Gutenberg

But the reflection that a dozen great ditches, each wide enough and deep enough to smother my horse, might lie between me and the house, availed to keep me in the road; the more as I now felt sure from the saltness of the night air that Romney and the sea were at no great distance in front of me.

From Project Gutenberg

This action, continued for many years, will rob the soil to feed the ocean; in fact, the saltness of the ocean is due, largely, to the substances washed out of the soils.

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