un·whole·some ( n-h l s m)adj. 1. Injurious to physical, mental, or moral health; unhealthy. 2. Suggestive of disease or degeneracy: an unwholesome pallor. 3. Offensive or loathsome. un·whole some·ly adv.un·whole some·ness n. |
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| Noun | 1. |  unwholesomeness - the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for youquality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare perniciousness, toxicity - grave harmfulness or deadliness deadliness, lethality - the quality of being deadly jejunity, jejuneness - quality of lacking nutritive value putrescence, rottenness - the quality of rotting and becoming putrid unhealthfulness - the quality of promoting poor health wholesomeness - the quality of being beneficial and generally good for you |
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unwholesomeness
n → Ungesundheit f; (of influence) → Verderblichkeit f; (of appearance, character) → Schmierigkeit f; (of food) → Minderwertigkeit f; (of smell) → Verfaultheit f; (of desire, thoughts, story, joke) → Schmutzigkeit f
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