feculence

noun — 2 senses

feculence

noun

Etymology From French féculence, from Latin faeculentia. Doublet of feculency.

1

The state or quality of being feculent.

2

Feculent matter; dregs, filth.

  • At least his hangover was on the wane; all he felt now were a certain wateriness in the lower belly, and a feculence of mucus ramed up both nostrils, not unlike two small coral reefs.1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury, published 2011, page 42:

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