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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

feculence en · NOUN

Etymology

From French féculence, from Latin faeculentia. Doublet of feculency.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The state or quality of being feculent.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Feculent matter; dregs, filth.
    • At least his hangover was on the wane; all he felt now were a certain wateriness in the lower belly, and a feculence of mucus ramed up both nostrils, not unlike two small coral reefs. 1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury, published 2011, page 42:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
fæculence alternative, obsolete lexicographic
feculency alternative, obsolete lexicographic
fæculency alternative, obsolete lexicographic
faeculence alternative lexicographic
feculences Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (5)

fr féculence (state of being feculent) · de Kotartigkeit (state of being feculent) · ca feculència (state of being feculent) · es feculencia (state of being feculent) · de Fäkulenz (state of being feculent)