Pollution vs Filth - What's the difference?
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The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.
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, chapter=1 Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
(archaic) Physical defilement.
(medicine, obsolete) The emission of semen at other times than in sexual intercourse.
* 1839 , Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon'', Blanchard, page 492 defines ''POLLUTION as:
dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles
smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution
* Tillotson
(British, pejorative, slang) the police
weeds growing on pasture land
Pollution is a related term of filth.
As nouns the difference between pollution and filth
is that pollution is the act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances while filth is dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.pollution
English
(wikipedia pollution)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the
- The excretion of seminal liquor or sperm, at other times than during coition. When occasioned by a voluntary act it is called, simply, Pollution'' or ''Masturbation'' (q.v.); when excited, during sleep, by lascivious dreams, it takes the name ''Noctur'nal pollution, Exoneiro'sis, Oneirog'mos, Oneirog'onos, Gonorrhœ'a dormien'tium, G. oneirog'onos, G. Vera, G. libidino'sa, Proflu'vium Sem'inis, Spermatorrhœ'a, Paronir'ia salax, Night pollution.
Synonyms
* soilage * (masturbation) self-pollutionAntonyms
* conservation * purityDerived terms
* air pollution * light pollution * noise pollution * self-pollution * soil pollution * water pollutionfilth
English
Noun
(-)- to purify the soul from the dross and filth of sensual delights
- Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.
