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The quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
Answer for the clue "The quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy ", 9 letters:
moldiness
Word definitions for moldiness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moldiness \Mold"i*ness\, Mouldiness \Mould"i*ness\, n. [From Moldy .] The state of being moldy.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy [syn: mustiness , must ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or degree of being moldy.
Usage examples of moldiness.
He had been in the garden, and found its mild moldiness even more delightful on a nearer view.
At the same time I breathed an insupportable fetor, like a mingling of rancid serpent-stench with the moldiness of antique charnels and the fearsome reek of newly decaying carrion.