astringency (n.)
- abbreviation
- acerbity
- acidity
- acidulousness
- acridity
- acridness
- acrimony
- asperity
- astringence
- austerity
- authoritarianism
- bite
- bitterness
- bottleneck
- cervix
- circumscription
- coarctation
- compaction
- compression
- concentration
- condensation
- consolidation
- constriction
- contraction
- contracture
- curtailment
- decrease
- diminuendo
- discipline
- edge
- fierceness
- gall
- grimness
- grip
- hardness
- harshness
- hourglass
- inclemency
- isthmus
- keenness
- knitting
- meticulousness
- mordacity
- narrowing
- neck
- piquancy
- poignancy
- point
- pungency
- reduction
- regimentation
- rigor
- roughness
- ruggedness
- severity
- sharpness
- shortening
- solidification
- sourness
- sternness
- sting
- strangulation
- striction
- strictness
- stricture
- stridency
- stringency
- systole
- tartness
- teeth
- toughness
- trenchancy
- vehemence
- violence
- virulence