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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
saltiness

1660s, from salty + -ness.

Wiktionary
saltiness

n. The property of being, or tasting, salty.

WordNet
saltiness
  1. n. the taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth [syn: salt, salinity]

  2. the property of containing salt (as a compound or in solution)

Usage examples of "saltiness".

Caressed his soft tip across her lips, tasting the saltiness of his skin.

We lay like that, her stretched out on top of me, kissing gently, sweetly, passing the saltiness back and forth, suspended as in a hanging prism, but even as our mouths lay upon each other just as gently, even as our tongues dance about each other just as sweetly, like waltzers floating arm in arm across a wooden floor, even as we try to hold on to the moment our bodies are picking up the tempo, her hands pressing into my side, my grip on the thick muscles of her thigh, her foot, toes splayed, pressing down on my own, my knee, her knee, my teeth, her hip.

There were slices of Hungarian salami with little spots of white mold on them: these he gobbled up, chewing slowly, letting the rich saltiness fill his muzzle, closing his eyes with delight.

Saltiness is stimulated by many inorganic ions other than the hydrogen ion, of course.

Where the salt level is low, either through mineral deficiency in the diet or through excessive loss of salt through perspiration, saltiness becomes a pleasanter sensation than otherwise.

They got into a small carriage that looked like an enormous bat, drawn by an asthmatic horse, and they went through the desolate city in the endless streets of which, split by saltiness, there was the sound of a piano lesson just like the one that Fernanda heard during the siestas of her adolescence.