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Definition: Filthiness |
FilthinessNoun1. A state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "filthiness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: FilthinessSynonyms: filth (n), foulness (n), nastiness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Filthiness |
| English words defined with "filthiness": Squalidity. (references) |
| "Filthiness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Filthiness" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "filthiness". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Zaham | N/A | Biblical | Filthiness |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Language | Translations for "filthiness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fëlliqësi (contamination, defilement, dirt, filth, slime, villainy), ndyrësi (crap, dirt, dirtiness, enormity, filth, muck, ordure, piggishness, salacity). (various references) | |
Arabic | قذارة (dirt, dirtiness, filth, foulness, impurity, infection, squalor, uncleanliness, uncleanness), بذاءة (bawdiness, dirt, dirtiness, filth, foulness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, lewdness, nastiness, obscenity, ribaldry, smut, sordidness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разврат (debaucheries, debauchery, depravation, filth, fornication, immorality, laxity, lechery, profligacy, riot), цинизми (dirt, smut), нечистотия (dirt, dirtiness, grime, impurity, manginess). (various references) | |
Czech | špína (dirt, filth, grime, impurity, soil, squalor). (various references) | |
French | malpropreté, grossièretés (filth), grossièreté (filth), crasse. (various references) | |
German | schmutzigkeit (dirtiness, griminess, lewdness, muckiness, mussiness, nastiness, smuttiness, sordidness, turbidity, unwholesomeness). (various references) | |
Greek | ρυπαρότησ (grubbiness, sloppiness, smudginess, smuttiness, squalidity, squalidness, squalor, uncleanliness, uncleanness), ρυπαρότητα (dinginess, dirtiness, griminess, grubbiness, manginess, nastiness, sloppiness, smudginess, smuttiness, squalidity, squalidness, squalor, uncleanliness, uncleanness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ט ופת (dirt, filth, foulness, muck). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szennyesség (squalor), erkölcstelenség (bawdiness, debauchery, filth, immorality, impurity, lewdness, rottenness, unprincipledness). (various references) | |
Italian | sudiciume (dinginess, dirt, filth, frowziness, grime, muck, nastiness, raunchiness, scruffiness), sporcizia (dirt, dirtiness, filth, foulness, frowziness, grime, nastiness), oscenit (bawdiness, filth, foulness, obsceneness, obscenity, smut). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不"感 , 不浄 (defilement, dirtiness, impurity, latrine, menses, toilet, uncleanliness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふけつか", ふじょう (defilement, dirtiness, floating fortress, impurity, inconstancy, indefinite, insecurity, latrine, menses, rising to the surface, surfacing, toilet, uncertainty, uncleanliness, undecided, warship). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ilthinessfay.(various references) | |
Romanian | obscenitate (obsceneness, obscenity), murdãrie (contamination, corruption, defilement, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, dishonesty, dung, filth, foulness, greasiness, grime, litter, maculation, mess, muck, nastiness, naughty words, offscourings, ordure, puddle, refuse, rust, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, squalidity). (various references) | |
Russian | грязь (dirt, dirtiness, filth, foulness, grime, grubbiness, gunge, mire, muck, mud, muddiness, ordure, puddle, slob, sludge, sordidness, squalor, squelch), мерзость (villainy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaprljanost. (various references) | |
Turkish | pislik (contamination, crap, crud, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, excrement, excreta, faecal matter, faeces, feculence, filth, foulness, gook, griminess, impurity, jerk, mess, mire, muck, nastiness, offscourings, ordure, pollution, scum, scurvy, smear, smut, soil, sordidness, squalor, uncleanliness), kirlilik (dirtiness, griminess, impurity, uncleanliness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính thô tục (commonness, hoggishness, piggishness, ribaldry, scurrility), tính chất dơ dáy tính tục tĩu, tính chất bẩn thỉu, tính ô trọc. (various references) | |
Welsh | budreddi (filth), bryntni (filth). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | spurcitia, spurcitiam. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | âhitica. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ekgonon kakon dikaion eauton krinei thn de exodon autou ouk apeniyen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Generatio quae sibi munda videtur et tamen non est lota a sordibus suis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Jeneracioun that to hymself clene is seen, and neuer the latere it is not wasshe fro his filthis. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 12 |
| Cebuano | Adunay usa ka kaliwatan nga ulay ilang kaugalingong mga mata, Ug bisan pa niini wala mahugasi gikan sa ilang pagkahugaw. |
| Croatian | Izrod koji za se misli da je èist, a od kala svojeg nije opran! |
| Danish | en Slægt, der tykkes sig ren og dog ej har tvættet Snavset af sig, |
| Dutch | Een geslacht, dat rein in zijn ogen is, en van zijn drek niet gewassen is; |
| Finnish | sukua, joka on omissa silmissään puhdas, vaikka ei ole pesty liastansa! |
| French | Il est une race qui se croit pure, Et qui n`est pas lavée de sa souillure. |
| German | eine Art, die sich rein dünkt, und ist doch von ihrem Kot nicht gewaschen; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ada orang yang menganggap dirinya suci padahal ia kotor sekali. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | suatu bangsa yang sangka akan dirinya suci, tetapi tiada dibasuhkan kecemarannya; |
| Italian | C'è gente che si crede pura, ma non si è lavata della sua lordura. |
| Maori | Tera te whakatupuranga, he ma ki ta ratou na titiro, otira kahore ano kia horoia atu to ratou paru. |
| Norwegian | en ætt som er ren i sine egne øine og dog ikke har tvettet sig for sitt eget skarn, |
| Portuguese | Há gente que é pura aos seus olhos, e contudo nunca foi lavada da sua imundícia. |
| Rumanian | Este un neam de oameni care se crede curat, wi totuw, nu este spqlat de kntinqciunea lui. |
| Russian | еУФШ ТП", ЛПФПТЩК ЮЙУФ Ч ЗМБЪБИ УЧПЙИ, ФПЗ"Б ЛБЛ ОЕ ПНЩФ ПФ ОЕЮЙУФПФ УЧПЙИ. |
| Swedish | ett släkte som tycker sig vara rent, fastän det icke har avtvått sin orenlighet; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "filthiness": filthinesses. (additional references) | |
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"Filthiness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: filthies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "filthiness" (pronounced 'Filth"i*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-h-i-i-l-n-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: fishlines. | |
-2 letters: finishes, fishiest, fishline, fishnets, shiniest, tilefish. | |
-3 letters: enlists, finises, finites, finless, fishnet, fissile, fitness, hisself, hitless, infests, instils, leftish, liniest, listens, nifties, selfish, silents, sithens, stifles, tinsels. | |
-4 letters: elfins, elfish, elints, enlist, feints, feists, fetish, filets, filses, filths, finest, finish, finite, fishes, fliest, flints, flites, heists, infest, inlets, insets, insist, instil, islets. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-h-i-i-l-n-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: flightiness. | |
+2 letters: filthinesses. | |
+3 letters: flightinesses. | |
+5 letters: electrofishings. | |
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