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What does pungence mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality of odor/odour that stings the nose, said especially of acidic or spicy substances.
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Similarly, the purging of emotional associations, particularly biblical ones, gives a dry pungence to Amichai's poetry.
And though the terse plot summaries in Cinema Stories at times recall the ironic pungence of Siegfried Kracauer's Weimar film notices, they spare us ideological insinuations.
It had a cured smell, the comfortable pungence of a can of pipe tobacco or mink coats in closets.
It is semidry, mildly snappy with a piquant pungence all its own.
The house was over-warm, and there was a musty smell of over-aged furniture, old leather, and the pungence of mothballs.
Animals do not distinguish between us and the other beasts, or between us and the rocks and trees, each with its pungence and relevance to the struggle for existence.

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