salinity.

The amount of dissolved salts in water or another medium.

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Words that belong together

• water salinity
• soil salinity

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Water salinity rose as the shallow lagoon evaporated.

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.