piquancy

English

Etymology

From piquant +‎ -cy.

Noun

piquancy (countable and uncountable, plural piquancies)

1. The degree to which something is piquant, stimulating or exciting.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 197–198:

     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,...

   • 1920, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love:

     There was a certain playfulness about her too, such a piquancy or ironic suggestion, such an untouched reserve.

Translations

degree to which something is piquant

• Bulgarian: пикантност f (pikantnost)
• German: Pikanterie (de) f
• Polish: pikanteria f