raciness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From racy + -ness.

Let it be said here that they achieved raciness. — The Dop Doctor, Richard Dehan
It has a raciness not in those softened versions in which one friend gets into a pocket, another under a wing, and so on. — Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes, Charles Madison Curry
The quaintness of his remarks and their not infrequent truth—a truth condensed and pointed by the limited sphere of his view—gave a raciness to his talk which mere worldliness and general cultivation would at once have destroyed. — Twice-told tales, Nathaniel Hawthorne

pungency, bite, sharpness

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