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fecality

fecality noun: the quality of being fecal.

Noun

fecality (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being fecal.
    • Notwithstanding these admonitions, she did eat sixteen quarters, two bushels, three pecks and a pipkin full. O the fair fecality wherewith she swelled, by the ingrediency of such shitten stuff!1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], chapter IV, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the...
    • Their appearance leads to an orgy of multitudinous fornications, a wild tumult of perversions and obscene interlacings which language is dislocated and fiercely fractured to express. The vision is not simply of a jungle of wild copulations, but of filth, fecality, bestiality.1989, Contemporary literary criticism : excerpts from criticism of the works of today's novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, page 400

Origin of fecality

From fecal + -ity.

Questions about fecality

What does fecality mean?
Fecality means the quality of being fecal.
What part of speech is fecality?
Fecality is a noun.

Words near fecality in the dictionary

  1. fecal transplants
  2. fecal-oral
  3. fecalia
  4. fecalith
  5. fecaliths
  6. fecality
  7. fecally
  8. fecaloid
  9. fecaloma
  10. fecalomas
  11. fecalomata

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