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RANCIDITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rancidity mean?
• RANCIDITY (noun)
The noun RANCIDITY has 1 sense:
1. the state of being rancid; having a rancid scent or flavor (as of old cooking oil)
Familiarity information: RANCIDITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being rancid; having a rancid scent or flavor (as of old cooking oil)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("rancidity" is a kind of...):
decay (an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying)
Derivation:
rancid (smelling of fermentation or staleness)
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