earthiness.

1. A smell or taste resembling soil, roots, or damp ground.

2. A plain, physical, or unrefined quality in manner or humor.

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Words that belong together

• earthiness of mushrooms
• pleasant earthiness

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The mushrooms' earthiness anchored the delicate sauce.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common.