Usually means: Degradation of fats into odors.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. rancidity: Merriam-Webster
  2. rancidity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rancidity: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rancidity: Vocabulary.com
  5. rancidity: Wordnik
  6. rancidity: Wiktionary
  7. rancidity: Dictionary.com
  8. Rancidity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Rancidity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. rancidity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Rancidity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. rancidity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. rancidity: FreeDictionary.org
  14. rancidity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. rancidity: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rancidity: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rancidity: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. rancidity: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rancidity)

▸ noun:  The state of being rancid.

Similar:
rancorousness, reastiness, rottenness, rustiness, rattiness, ratness, randiness, ruttiness, rattishness, putrefaction, more...

Opposite:
freshness, aroma, fragrance, wholesomeness, flavor

Types:
staleness, pungency, acidity, sourness, foulness, more...

Adjectives:
oxidative, hydrolytic, fat, incipient, ketonic, lipolytic, slight, true, spontaneous, soapy, subsequent

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Similar:
rancorousness, reastiness, rottenness, rustiness, rattiness, ratness, randiness, ruttiness, rattishness, putrefaction, more...

Opposite:
freshness, aroma, fragrance, wholesomeness, flavor

Types:
staleness, pungency, acidity, sourness, foulness, more...

Adjectives:
oxidative, hydrolytic, fat, incipient, ketonic, lipolytic, slight, true, spontaneous, soapy, subsequent



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