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stinkingness

stinkingness noun: the quality of being stinking.

Noun

stinkingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being stinking.
    • Its sweetness cuts the gall-bitter taste of defeat which, to the palate, is as the stinkingness to the nose of the pus-running wounds of soldiers.1950, Saturday Review of Literature, volume 33, number 2, page 23
    • Whenever I feel really depressed about the stinkingness of politics, I take a dive into Fleet Street and see what stinkingness really is.1981, Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, Janet P. Morgan, The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman, page 141

Origin of stinkingness

From stinking + -ness.

Questions about stinkingness

What does stinkingness mean?
Stinkingness means the quality of being stinking.
What part of speech is stinkingness?
Stinkingness is a noun.

Words near stinkingness in the dictionary

  1. stinking toes
  2. stinking up
  3. stinking willie
  4. stinking willy
  5. stinkingly
  6. stinkingness
  7. stinkings
  8. stinkless
  9. stinko
  10. Stinkomalee
  11. stinkometer

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