miasmata

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A form of miasma — A noxious atmosphere or emanation once thought to originate from swamps and waste, and to cause disease.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of miasma

    With their nights’ growths of beard, matted hair, bloodshot eyes, miasmata of foul breath, DeCoverley and Joaquin are wasted gods urging on a tardy glacier.

    1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

    Synonyms: miasmas

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Origin

  1. Ancient Greekμιάσματα
  2. Englishmiasmata

Ancient Greek μιάσματα (miásmata), plural of μίασμα (míasma).

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