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Feculent vs Feculence - What's the difference?

feculent | feculence |

As nouns the difference between feculent and feculence

is that feculent is any starchy food such as cereals, potatoes etc while feculence is the state of being feculent.

As an adjective feculent

is starchy.

feculent

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Dirty with faeces or other impurities; turbid; foul, filthy, fetid.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 84:
  • *:At this time in history the streets of London were as foul, feculent and disease-ridden as a series of interconnected dunghills, twice as dangerous as a battlefield, and as infrequently maintained as the lower cells of an asylum dungeon.

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    feculence

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete) * feculency

    Noun

  • The state of being feculent.