noun
- Disgusting wickedness and immorality.
- usage: "he understood the foulness of sin"; "his display of foulness deserved severe punishment"; "mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed"
- A state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse.
- synonyms: filth, filthiness, nastiness
- Of weather. ( the badness of the weather)
- usage: "they were wearied with the foulness of the weather"
- synonyms: raininess
- The attribute of having a strong offensive smell.
- synonyms: malodorousness, stinkiness, rankness, fetidness
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