noun
1. disgusting wickedness and immorality
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he understood the foulness of sin
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his display of foulness deserved severe punishment
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mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed
• Derivationally related forms: ↑foul
• Hypernyms: ↑iniquity, ↑wickedness, ↑darkness, ↑dark
2. a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
• Syn: ↑filth, ↑filthiness, ↑nastiness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑nasty (for: ↑nastiness), ↑foul, ↑filthy (for: ↑filthiness), ↑filthy (for: ↑filth)
• Hypernyms: ↑unsanitariness
3. (of weather) the badness of the weather
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they were wearied with the foulness of the weather
• Syn: ↑raininess
• Hypernyms: ↑badness, ↑severity, ↑severeness
4. the attribute of having a strong offensive smell
• Syn: ↑malodorousness, ↑stinkiness, ↑rankness, ↑fetidness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑fetid (for: ↑fetidness), ↑rank (for: ↑rankness), ↑foul, ↑stinky (for: ↑stinkiness), ↑malodorous (for: ↑malodorousness)
• Hyponyms: ↑body odor, ↑body odour, ↑B.O.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.