Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of smelling offensively; a fetid or stinking quality.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being fetid.

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  • noun The quality of being fetid

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  • noun the attribute of having a strong offensive smell

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Examples

  • The inherent fetidness of the charter school model is without parallel in the history of American schooling.

    Imagine, Inc. Charter Schools and Real Estate Jim Horn 2009

  • The inherent fetidness of the charter school model is without parallel in the history of American schooling.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Jim Horn 2009

  • One there breathes the enormous fetidness of social catastrophes.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in which he stood.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Read as an example of modern fetidness, in the last number of the Vie Parisienne, the article on Marion Delorme.

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

  • His instinct perceived the fetidness of poverty, but no longer ferreted out the deeper evils in pride and sensuality.

    This Side of Paradise 2003

  • A palpable fetidness that oozed from every pore made the herdsman glad he had not eaten since morning, and then very little.

    Carnivores of Light and Darkness Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • For sheer degree of fetidness, his untreated morning breath matched any odor rising from the surrounding bog.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • For sheer degree of fetidness, his untreated morning breath matched any odor rising from the surrounding bog.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • Perhaps it would simply be better to let him get it over with and yet the moment she felt the fetidness of his breath against her skin, every muscle in her body clenched in desperate protest.

    Desire for Revenge Jordan, Penny 1997

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