spiciness

It was a cumulative spiciness I recognized from years of exposure to—you guessed it—Israeli cuisine.

I love it in its cleanness and spiciness, and shall be sorry when we have left the desert behind us.

She liked to brew and bake; to sniff browning pie crust and the warm spiciness of ginger cookies.

The sun shone warmly from a blue sky, and there was a balmy spiciness to the southern wind.

This poor girl of nineteen already required some element of spiciness in order to get up an interest in a novel.