English
stinkingness
From stinking + -ness.
Formed from stinking + -ness
Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ- ‘to push, thrust’
Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną ‘to stink’
Proto-Germanic *stinkwandz
Old English stincende
Middle English stynkynge
English stinking
Today it means
noun The quality of being stinking.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “stinkingness”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / stinkingness