Fetor

//ˈfiː.tə// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An unpleasant smell. countable, uncountable

    "Heʼd thrown rancid meat in a fire to fill the woods with the ripe fetor of death."

  2. 2
    a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant wordnet

Synonyms

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stenchstinkaromabad breathbobody odor

Example

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"Next I removed all the intestines as far as the duodenum and dealt with them as with the rectum, and so I had the intestines clean and without fetor."

Etymology

From Latin fētor.

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