UNWHOLESOMENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unwholesomeness mean? 

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

1. the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNWHOLESOMENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

morbidity; morbidness; unwholesomeness

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

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

harmfulness; noisomeness; noxiousness (the quality of being noxious)

perniciousness; toxicity (grave harmfulness or deadliness)

deadliness; lethality (the quality of being deadly)

putrescence; rottenness (the quality of rotting and becoming putrid)

unhealthfulness (the quality of promoting poor health)

Antonym:

wholesomeness (the quality of being beneficial and generally good for you)

Derivation:

unwholesome (detrimental to physical or moral well-being)