stinkingness

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noun

The quality of being stinking.

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Meanings

nounstinkingness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being stinking.

    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
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    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

Origin

From stinking + -ness.

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stinkingness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stinkingness

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stinkingness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stinkingness.

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