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RANCIDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rancidness mean?
• RANCIDNESS (noun)
The noun RANCIDNESS has 1 sense:
1. the property of being rancid
Familiarity information: RANCIDNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being rancid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("rancidness" is a kind of...):
aroma; odor; odour; olfactory property; scent; smell (any property detected by the olfactory system)
taste property (a property appreciated via the sense of taste)
Derivation:
rancid (smelling of fermentation or staleness)
rancid ((used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition)
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