piquancy

English

Etymology

piquant +‎ -cy

Noun

piquancy (countable and uncountable, plural piquancies)

1. The degree to which something is piquant, stimulating or exciting.
   • 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 2, 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, Women in Love, ch 1:

     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