saltness

noun

1. (uncountable)The state or quality of being salt; saltiness.

   “Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath yet some of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time; and I humbly beseech your lordship to have a reverend care of your health.”

   “Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it?”

   “Take five or six salt Herrings, wash them very well, lay them in a pretty Quantity of Water all Night to take out the Saltness […]”

   “'Tis strange the strength which mingles with our weakness, that even in the suffering which sends the tear to the eye—not to be shed, but there to lie in all its burning and saltness—which swells in the throat but to be forced down again, like nauseous medicine; even in this deep and deadly suffering, vanity finds a trophy of power over which to exult.”

   “The sea, perhaps because of its saltness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul.”