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Brackishness

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brack·ish  (brksh)
adj.
1. Having a somewhat salty taste, especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water: "You could cut the brackish winds with a knife/Here in Nantucket" (Robert Lowell).
2. Distasteful; unpalatable: a thin, brackish gruel.
[From Dutch brak.]
brackish·ness n.
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Noun1.brackishness - the quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water
saltiness - the property of containing salt (as a compound or in solution)
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