Hypertext Webster Gateway: "raciness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Raciness \Ra"ci*ness\, n.
The quality of being racy; peculiar and piquant flavor.

The general characteristics of his [Cobbett's] style
were perspicuity, unequaled and inimitable; . . . a
purity always simple, and raciness often elegant.
--London
Times.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

raciness
n : behavior or language bordering on indelicacy [syn: {gaminess},
{ribaldry}, {spiciness}]


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