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rancidity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rancidity has 1 sense
- rancidity(n = noun.state) Array - the state of being rancid; having a rancid scent or flavor (as of old cooking oil); Array is a kind of decay
Derived form adjective rancid2
CIDE DICTIONARY
rancidity, n. [Cf. F. rancidité.].
The quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or flavor, as of old oil. Ure. [1913 Webster]
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rancidity
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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