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The quality of rotting and becoming putrid
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rottenness
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. in a state of progressive putrefaction [syn: putrescence , putridness , corruption ] the quality of rotting and becoming putrid [syn: putrescence ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being rotten.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from rotten + -ness .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rotten \Rot"ten\, a. [Icel. rotinn; akin to Sw. rutten, Dan. radden. See Rot .] Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat. Hence: Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting. You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek of the ...
Usage examples of rottenness.
Germans to stand fast, ghastly pictures of the weakness and unpreparedness of the Russian army, in a word Russian rottenness and corruption.
Those who have seen him lately say that to every man he met he had been cursing the rottenness and the depravity of our Tendai priesthood.
By little and little he has been induced to trust in that rotten reed, and it communicates some portion of its rottenness to everything around him.
The air was growing fouler and more irrespirable, with a thick, sodden quality, as if from a sediment of material rottenness.
Would that a storm came and shook all this rottenness and worm-eatenness from the tree!