INSALUBRITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insalubrity mean? 

• INSALUBRITY (noun)
  The noun INSALUBRITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating

  Familiarity information: INSALUBRITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSALUBRITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being insalubrious and debilitating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

insalubriousness; insalubrity

Hypernyms ("insalubrity" is a kind of...):

unhealthfulness (the quality of promoting poor health)

Antonym:

salubrity (the quality of being salubrious and invigorating)

Derivation:

insalubrious (detrimental to health)

 Context examples 

As I looked out of the coach window, and observed that an old house on Fish-street Hill, which had stood untouched by painter, carpenter, or bricklayer, for a century, had been pulled down in my absence; and that a neighbouring street, of time-honoured insalubrity and inconvenience, was being drained and widened; I half expected to find St. Paul's Cathedral looking older.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)