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PUTRIDITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does putridity mean?
• PUTRIDITY (noun)
The noun PUTRIDITY has 1 sense:
1. the state of being putrid
Familiarity information: PUTRIDITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being putrid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("putridity" is a kind of...):
impureness; impurity (the condition of being impure)
Derivation:
putrid (in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor)
putrid (of or relating to or attended by putrefaction)
Context examples
This bottom was littered with great gobbets of flesh, most of which was in the last state of putridity.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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