without article. Evil-smelling quality or property, offensive odour, stink.

Evil-smelling quality, offensive odour: = stench, n. 3.

The quality of being stinking.

Strength or harshness (of smell); ill savour.

= contagion, n. 7.

Repulsiveness of smell; ‘stink, noisome effluvia. Still used in this sense in the west of England’ (Nares).

Foulness, noisomeness, stench. Obsolete.

The property of having a pungent smell or taste; (more widely) a stinging, irritant, or caustic quality.

Pungency or sharpness of taste or smell. Frequently figurative (cf. sense 2). Now rare.

= fetidity n. Also concrete something fetid.

= poignancy, n. (in various senses); (formerly) †sharpness, pungency (obsolete); (more recently) keenness of feeling, or the ability to evoke…

= pungency, n.

the quality or state of being fetid; a fetid nature or condition; foulness, ill savour, offensiveness.

= piquancy, n.

The condition of being smelly.