[f. STINKING ppl. a. + -NESS.] The quality of being stinking.
1382. Wyclif, Lev. xviii. 19. To the womman that suffreth flux of blood thow shalt not goo, ne opne the stynkyngnes of hir.
1631. Celestina, ix. 106. This [wine] takes away the stinkingnesse of the breath.
1886. United Ireland, 24 April, 4/6. The black, sticky, stinkingness of coal tar.
