[f. SPICY a. + -NESS.] The quality of being spicy (esp. in fig. senses).
1633. Herbert, Temple, Odour, iii. That these two words might creep and grow To some degree of spicinesse to thee!
1655. H. Vaughan, Silex Scint. (1858), 81. Cold showers nipt and wrung Their spiciness and bloud.
1730. Bailey (fol.), Aromaticalness, Spiciness.
1876. World, V. 11. Our English language does not lend itself so easily as the French to meretricious spiciness of phrase.
1895. Outing, XXVII. 38. There is a spiciness in the fact.
