Pollution vs Squalor - 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:
Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.
* The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor . -- Taylor
* To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes. -- Dickens
** Dickens also used the term to refer to those living in Squalor, such as those in the slums.
As nouns the difference between pollution and squalor
is that pollution is the act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances while squalor is squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.pollution
English
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- 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.