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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The characteristic of being musky.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. having the olfactory properties of musk

Examples

  • “They say things like, “Oh, the bones of the fish give it a nice crunch!” or “The muskiness is so refreshing!””

    From the stack: Oishinbo: Izakaya: Pub Food

  • “The air is infused with woodsy muskiness, honeysuckle, wild mushrooms, freshly washed chlorinated sheets hanging drenched on a clothes line.”

    Fictionaut: Ménage A Bleu

  • “I turned off the light and watched the movement of the herd block stars low in the sky, breathed the muskiness that followed them on their journey.”

    Simon & Schuster: Miracles, Inc.

  • “The morning after he always smelled of tallow and incense and an exciting, foreign muskiness.”

    Fictionaut: Blackballed

  • “Hands on the table, leaning in close enough to smell the sweet muskiness of her perfume.”

    Fictionaut: Twenty-Ten

  • “I substituted Pecrino, which might have been a tad sharper and salter than Manchego, but still had the good muskiness of a sheep's milk cheese.”

    The Dangers of Faux Risotto

  • “As he twisted around in the passenger seat, he was close enough to detect the scent of her freshly shampooed hair, and a slight muskiness from under her sleeveless blouse.”

    Fictionaut: The Body Ricardo

  • “He could still smell the sickening heavy odor of fresh blood, could taste its disgustingly salty muskiness in his mouth.”

    Fictionaut: Baby Games

  • “It had a striking melon flavor, but the unpleasant muskiness came too quickly forward.”

    Daniel Shumski: Cherry-Infused Vodka

  • “There was virtually no aroma, save a faint earthy muskiness.”

    Thermo Refur

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  • yarb My father's bait-tin twenty years ago
    locked-in the same lush juicy muskiness
    and, opened recently, effused
    all of the scent of bankside stoups.

    - Peter Reading, Earthworks, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974 Jun 22, 2008

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