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foulness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun foulness has 4 senses
- foulness(n = noun.state) Array - disgusting wickedness and immorality; "he understood the foulness of sin"; "his display of foulness deserved severe punishment"; "mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed" is a kind of dark, darkness, iniquity, wickedness
- foulness(n = noun.state) filth, filthiness, nastiness - a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse; Array is a kind of unsanitariness
- foulness(n = noun.attribute) raininess - (of weather) the badness of the weather; "they were wearied with the foulness of the weather" is a kind of badness, severeness, severity
- foulness(n = noun.attribute) fetidness, malodorousness, rankness, stinkiness - the attribute of having a strong offensive smell; Array is a kind of aroma, odor, odour, olfactory property, scent, smell
Derived form adjective foul3
Derived form adjective foul7
has particulars: b.o., body odor, body odour
Derived form adjective foul2
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foulness
Fetor
N fetor, bad, smell, bad odor, stench, stink, foul odor, malodor, empyreuma, mustiness, rancidity, foulness, stoat, polecat, skunk, assafoetida, fungus, garlic, stinkpot, fitchet, fitchew, fourmart, peccary, acridity, fetid, strong-smelling, high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive, noisome, rank, rancid, reasty, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy, olid, olidous, nidorous, smelling, stinking, putrid, suffocating, mephitic, empyreumatic.
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