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UNWHOLESOMENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you
Synonyms:
morbidity; morbidness; unwholesomeness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("unwholesomeness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unwholesomeness"):
harmfulness; noisomeness; noxiousness (the quality of being noxious)
perniciousness; toxicity (grave harmfulness or deadliness)
deadliness; lethality (the quality of being deadly)
putrescence; rottenness (the quality of rotting and becoming putrid)
unhealthfulness (the quality of promoting poor health)
Antonym:
wholesomeness (the quality of being beneficial and generally good for you)
Derivation:
unwholesome (detrimental to physical or moral well-being)
