piquancy

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piquancy

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From piquant + -cy.

noun piquancies

countable, uncountable The degree to which something is piquant, stimulating or exciting. 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,...

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noun degree to which something is piquant

Deutsch	Pikanterie

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@misc{piquancy_2026,
  title = {piquancy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/piquancy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}