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putrescency

putrescency is the alternative form of putrescence.

Meaning of putrescence

Noun

putrescence (countable and uncountable, plural putrescences)

  1. The condition of being putrid; decay
  2. Putrid matter
    • Hot, and precipitate, and zealous, as has been the assiduity, with which the public eye is blinkled by this glittering putrescence of rotten policy, and the public ear is deaffened by a vapid and senseless jargon of political bombast, …1791, Presbyterio-Catholicon

Forms of putrescency

pluralputrescencies

Questions about putrescency

What is putrescency the alternative form of?
Putrescency is the alternative form of putrescence.

Words near putrescency in the dictionary

  1. putresced
  2. putrescein
  3. putrescence
  4. putrescences
  5. putrescencies
  6. putrescency
  7. putrescene
  8. putrescenes
  9. putrescent
  10. putrescently
  11. putresces

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Adapted from Wiktionary: putrescency (page history and authors); putrescence (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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