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BRACKISHNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brackishness mean?
• BRACKISHNESS (noun)
The noun BRACKISHNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water
Familiarity information: BRACKISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("brackishness" is a kind of...):
saltiness (the property of containing salt (as a compound or in solution))
Derivation:
brackish (slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water))
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