"foulness" in the noun sense
1. foulness
disgusting wickedness and immorality
"he understood the foulness of sin"
"his display of foulness deserved severe punishment"
"mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed"
2. filth, filthiness, foulness, nastiness
a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
3. foulness, raininess
of weather) the badness of the weather
"they were wearied with the foulness of the weather"
4. malodorousness, stinkiness, foulness, rankness, fetidness
the attribute of having a strong offensive smell
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