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insalubrities

insalubrities is the plural of insalubrity.

Meaning of insalubrity

Noun

insalubrity (usually uncountable, plural insalubrities)

  1. (usually) The condition of being insalubrious; unhealthiness, unwholesomeness
    • [S]uch an one […] recalls as a vision of Paradise the land he has learnt to love; he exaggerates the insalubrity of a northern climate; he bewails the wretched formality of our civilised life, and so, back to the distant solitudes flies his recollection like a dove to the wilderness.1874, Georg August Schweinfurth, chapter I, in Ellen E. Frewer, transl., The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of Central Africa, from 1868 to 1871...

Questions about insalubrities

What is insalubrities the plural of?
Insalubrities is the plural of insalubrity.

Words near insalubrities in the dictionary

  1. insalivating
  2. insalivation
  3. insalubrious
  4. insalubriously
  5. insalubriousness
  6. insalubrities
  7. insalubrity
  8. insalutary
  9. insanability
  10. insanable
  11. insane

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