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Fascinating vs Piquant - What's the difference?

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Fascinating is a related term of piquant.


As adjectives the difference between fascinating and piquant

is that fascinating is having interesting qualities; captivating; attractive while piquant is engaging; charming.

As a verb fascinating

is .

fascinating

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having interesting qualities; captivating; attractive.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • piquant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Engaging; charming.
  • Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; stimulating.
  • * 2000 , Lynn Bedford Hall, Best of Cooking in South Africa (page 2000)
    • These chops are baked in a piquant sauce containing fruit, honey, cinnamon, lemon and port, all of which reduces to a spicy syrup.
  • * 2005 , Clifford A. Wright, Some like it hot: spicy favorites from the world's hot zones
    • Elsewhere in South America, excepting Bahia in Brazil, one does not encounter piquant cuisine, although one may stumble on a piquant dish now and then...
  • * 2009 , Sara Engra, Katie Luber, Kimberly Toqe, The Spice Kitchen: Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices (page 9)
    • French charcuterie relies on cloves in the quatre épices, or four-spice powder, for seasoning fine sausages and piquant marinades.
  • (archaic) Causing hurt feelings; scathing.