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Definition of Brackishness
1. Noun. The quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water.
Definition of Brackishness
1. n. The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.
Definition of Brackishness
1. Noun. distastefulness; unpleasantness ¹
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Definition of Brackishness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brackishness
Literary usage of Brackishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Land and Fresh-water Shells of the British Islands by William Turton (1840)
"These species avoid the slightest degree of brackishness in the water, and are
therefore only found in the upper part of the rivers. ..."
2. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency by Bombay (India : Presidency), Bombay (India : State), Bombay (Presidency), India (1877)
"But, while the brackishness of some of the wells takes away from its character
as a water-bearing district, Surat has this great advantage, that the water ..."
3. The Confessions of S. Augustine by Augustine, Edward Bouverie Pusey (1838)
"For the sea in a figure is used of this world, bitter through brackishness,
turbulent through storms, when men through their perverse and depraved desires, ..."
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