Crossword clues for noisomeness
noisomeness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Noisome \Noi"some\, a. [For noysome, fr. noy for annoy. See Annoy.]
Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia. ``Noisome pestilence.''
--Ps. xci. 3.-
Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. ``Foul breath is noisome.''
--Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Noi"some*ly, adv. -- Noi"some*ness, n.Syn: Noxious; unwholesome; insalubrious; mischievous; destructive.
Usage: Noisome, Noxious. These words have to a great extent been interchanged; but there is a tendency to make a distinction between them, applying noxious to things that inflict evil directly; as, a noxious plant, noxious practices, etc., and noisome to things that operate with a remoter influence; as, noisome vapors, a noisome pestilence, etc. Noisome has the additional sense of disqusting. A garden may be free from noxious weeds or animals; but, if recently covered with manure, it may be filled with a noisome smell.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being noisome.
WordNet
n. the quality of being noxious [syn: harmfulness, noxiousness]
Usage examples of "noisomeness".
We, personally, would much liefer be biding back at our Eagle Palace with our Empress and children than riding long, dusty, weary miles every day, then laying our sore, tired body down in the discomfort and reeking, fetid noisomeness of a military camp every night.