stinkingness

English

Etymology

stinking +‎ -ness

Noun

stinkingness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being stinking.
   • 1950, Saturday Review of Literature, volume 33, number 2, page 23:

     Its sweetness cuts the gall-bitter taste of defeat which, to the palate, is as the stinkingness to the nose of the pus-running wounds of soldiers.

   • 1981, Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, Janet P. Morgan, The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman, page 141:

     Whenever I feel really depressed about the stinkingness of politics, I take a dive into Fleet Street and see what stinkingness really is.