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• n  wit having a sharp and caustic quality
  he commented with typical pungency
• n  a strong odor or taste property
  the pungency of mustard

• The movie script improves on the novelette in two basic ways: by what's added (the whipcrack pungency of Odets' dialogue) and what's missing.
• Similarly, I found the breadth and pungency of his stuff startling but not really shocking.
• Lenin, with his knack for hortatory pungency, reduced the past and future alike to two pronouns and a question mark: "Whowhom?" No verb was necessary.

• bite
• sharpness
• raciness

News & Articles

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• D.C.'s Worst-Smelling Plant Has Blossomed
  Attention, D.C. metro area: run, don't walk, to the U.S. Botanic Gardens, where our nation's "corpse flower" is in full bloom. This is not a drill or a metaphor. As of Sunday afternoon, you have 24-48 hours to approach the giant, tropical blossom, which will apparently be at its peak pungency Monday morning. 
  July 22, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News