Usually means: Spoilage of fats by oxidation.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word rancidness:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. rancidness: Merriam-Webster
  2. rancidness: Collins English Dictionary
  3. rancidness: Vocabulary.com
  4. rancidness: Wordnik
  5. rancidness: Wiktionary
  6. Rancidness, rancidness: Dictionary.com
  7. Rancidness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. rancidness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Rancidness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. rancidness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. rancidness: FreeDictionary.org
  12. rancidness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Rancidness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rancidness: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rancidness: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. rancidness: Medical dictionary

(Note: See rancid as well.)

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▸ noun:  The characteristic of being rancid.

Similar:
rancorousness, reastiness, rottenness, rattiness, ratness, rattishness, ruttiness, crudeness, rankness, raspiness, more...

Opposite:
freshness, wholesomeness, purity

Types:
fetid, stale, pungent, rank, acrid, putrid, more...

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Similar:
rancorousness, reastiness, rottenness, rattiness, ratness, rattishness, ruttiness, crudeness, rankness, raspiness, more...

Opposite:
freshness, wholesomeness, purity

Types:
fetid, stale, pungent, rank, acrid, putrid, more...



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