putridness

Examples

• All

• The stinking body stands in for the putridness of the social whole.

  Academic text (2009)

• The putridness of the rotting food filled the entire kitchen.

• He was unable to ignore the putridness that emanated from the abandoned house.

• The environmental report highlighted the putridness in the nearby river due to pollution.

Synonyms

C

corruption

vsputridness

10 5.6

The process of plant or animal matter breaking down and rotting

highlights the bad smell and spoilage as central quality

R

rottenness

vsputridness

3 4.6

A state when food or wood goes bad

stresses foul odor as the defining aspect rather than decay alone

P

putrefaction

vsputridness

• Specialized

3 8.9

The rotting of dead plants or animals that makes a bad smell

focuses on the quality or state rather than the active process

P

putrescence

vsputridness

• Specialized

1 9.9

A state of rotting that gives a bad smell

emphasizes the general condition of decayed material and smell

P

putridity

vsputridness

1 9.9

Rotten smell and decay of dead animals or plants

is the same in meaning but differs only in form or usage

P

pestilential smell

vsputridness

• Literature

9.4

A very strong bad air that makes you think of rotting things or disease

focuses on the broader condition of decay and its qualities

R

rancidness

vsputridness

7.6

A strong unpleasant smell and taste from old fats like butter

is more general, covering all foul decay not only fat spoilage

Antonyms

P

purity

25 3.1

The state of having no dirt or other things mixed in

F

freshness

15 1.0

The state of being new and clean, not stale or spoiled

How Putrid

putridness

1 8.2

rottenness

3 4.6

to decay

37 4.4

staleness

1 3.9

freshness

15 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology