Noun rottenness has 2 senses
  1. putrescence, putridness, rottenness, corruption - in a state of progressive putrefaction
    --1 is a kind of putrefaction, rot
  2. putrescence, rottenness - the quality of rotting and becoming putrid
    --2 is a kind of unwholesomeness, morbidness, morbidity
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