FETIDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fetidness mean? 

• FETIDNESS (noun)
  The noun FETIDNESS has 1 sense:

1. the attribute of having a strong offensive smell

  Familiarity information: FETIDNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FETIDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The attribute of having a strong offensive smell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fetidness; foulness; malodorousness; rankness; stinkiness

Hypernyms ("fetidness" is a kind of...):

aroma; odor; odour; olfactory property; scent; smell (any property detected by the olfactory system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fetidness"):

B.O.; body odor; body odour (malodorousness resulting from a failure to bathe)

Derivation:

fetid (offensively malodorous)