[f. SMELLY a. + -NESS.] The condition of being smelly.
1868. Cornh. Mag., Oct., 411. In fact, the measure of dirt and smelliness at the two places may be set down at six for the ‘Europe,’ and at half-a-dozen for the ‘Masse.’
1878. Hertfordshire Mercury, 16 Feb., 3/1. The dram-shops to decoy the sailors, the slop sellers, with parrots or other strange birds, and the peculiar smelliness, are all characteristic of every place that traffics with distant lands.
1892. Critic (U.S.), 5 March, 139/1. His long-suffering nose became indurated (or acclimatized, as it were) to the chronic smelliness of undrained China.
