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MUSTINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mustiness mean?
• MUSTINESS (noun)
The noun MUSTINESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
Familiarity information: MUSTINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("mustiness" is a kind of...):
staleness (having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging)
Derivation:
musty (stale and unclean smelling)
musty (covered with or smelling of mold)
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