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Definition of Fetidity
1. n. Fetidness.
Definition of Fetidity
1. Noun. The quality of being fetid. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fetidity
1. the state of being fetid [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fetidity
Literary usage of Fetidity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1852)
"... chemical effects ought to be observable, if there be any connection between
the source of this fetidity and that produced by ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1882)
"through atrophic rhinitis; but their fetidity, depending always upos the stagnation
of the ... This form of nasal fetidity, rarer than the two preceding, ..."
3. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1864)
"In a clinical lecture on the case, M. Empis remarks that the fetidity of the breath
... Gangrenous fetidity of the breath and expectoration does not belong ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1881)
""However, we ought to value highly the opinion of M. Charles Kobin, who, having
proved that this morbid sweat contains leucine, attributes the fetidity to ..."
5. The Woman's Medical Journal (1900)
"From these fifteen cases be concludes: First— That fetidity is allied largely
... Second—That fetidity is often merely a passing accident in the course of a ..."
6. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"Neither is this cadaverous fetidity peculiar to the beds of marble there met
with ; it is every where at- tendant on the carbonate of lime, ..."
7. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children by John Forsyth Meigs, William Pepper (1883)
"... contains rather a larger amount of thin feculent matter, and has a most
offensive odor,—an odor which is peculiar for its extreme fetidity, ..."
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