filthiness

English

Etymology

From filthy +‎ -ness.

Noun

filthiness (countable and uncountable, plural filthinesses)

  1. The property of being filthy.
    Synonym: dirtiness
    • 1701, Nehemiah Grew, “Of the Ends of Providence. And First, in this Life.”, in Cosmologia Sacra: Or A Discourse of the Universe as It is the Creature and Kingdom of God. […], London: […] W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B[enjamin] Walford: […], OCLC 642328229, 3rd book, paragraph 49, page 102:
      The Deformity, and Filthyneſs of Svvine, make them the Beauty-ſpot of the Animal Creation, and the Emblem of all Vice.
    • 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 274:
      Look at the filthiness of this compound!

Translations
dirtiness — see dirtiness
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