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Muskiness

Muskiness \Musk"i*ness\, n. The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk.

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muskiness

n. The characteristic of being musky.

Usage examples of "muskiness".

He leaned close, close enough for Thyatis to catch the smell of clean fabric and a muskiness of coriander and thyme.

He could smell the faint muskiness of her, and it filled his head with an aphrodisia that made him stagger mentally.

Scents now invaded his nostrils, the chalkiness of charcoal, the muskiness of incense, and there were others, subtler, delicate cooking-oil, tallow and still others impossible to define.

In spite of herself, she noticed the masculine odor of him, compounded not unpleasantly of sweat, leather, and an unusual muskiness that must be from close association with dragons.

There is no remembrance in him of any gorings of wild creatures in his green northern home, so that the strange muskiness he smells cannot recall to him anything associated with the experience of former perils.

The hunger to touch him, to be close enough that she could smell the unique, never-forgotten male muskiness of his scent, was so strong that she was almost paralyzed with need.