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Rankness vs Wantonness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between rankness and wantonness

is that rankness is the property of being rank, of having a repulsive odor, of being stinky, foul or malodorous while wantonness is the state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.

rankness

English

Noun

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  • The property of being rank, of having a repulsive odor, of being stinky, foul or malodorous.

    • wantonness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
  • *1897 , , Dracula , ch. 16,
  • *:The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness .
  • (countable, dated) A particular wanton act.
  • *1882 , , History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty , Little Brown (Boston), v. 3, p. 366,
  • *:These were simply the wantonnesses of a dishonest man.