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stinkingness en · NOUN

Etymology

From stinking + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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: