rankness

Noun

Meaning

The condition or quality of being rank.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fertility richness foulness fetidness prolificacy malodorousness stinkiness horror abundance aroma profusion depravity filth exuberance atrocity
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Antonyms

congeniality patronage scent perfume infertility fragrance
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Hypernyms

smell scent odor aroma fecundity odour

Hyponyms

B.O. body odor body odour

Examples

Consider the ravages committed in the bowels of all commonwealths by ambition, by avarice, envy, fraud, open injustice, and pretended friendship; vices which could draw little support from a state of nature, but which blossom and flourish in the rankness of political society. Edmund Burke

New First Law of Politics. State power expands to fill any area surrendered by a formerly free people. Liberty is like a garden . Weed it and tend it, or it will swiftly be choked by thorns and rankness. Peter Hitchens

he praised the richness of the soil Source: Internet

weeds lovely in their rankness Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

rankling ranklingly rankly Ranko rankogram rankshift