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[syn: mustiness, must, moldiness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mustiness \Mus"ti*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being musty.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mustiness
n 1: the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
[syn: mustiness, must, moldiness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "mustiness":
banality, banalness, cliche, commonness, commonplaceness,
corniness, familiarness, fetidity, fetidness, foulness, frowst,
frowstiness, frowziness, funkiness, fustiness, hackneyedness,
malodorousness, mildew, moldiness, must, noisomeness, odorousness,
offensiveness, platitudinousness, putridness, rancidity,
rancidness, rankness, reastiness, repulsiveness, rottenness,
smelliness, squareness, staleness, stinkingness, stuffiness,
triteness, unoriginality