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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 rottenness
 腐爛,腐敗

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rot·ten a.  Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat. Hence: (a) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.
 You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
 As reek of the rotten fens.   --Shak.
 (b) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. “The deepness of the rotten way.”
 Rotten borough. See under Borough.
 Rotten stone Min., a soft stone, called also Tripoli (from the country from which it was formerly brought), used in all sorts of finer grinding and polishing in the arts, and for cleaning metallic substances. The name is also given to other friable siliceous stones applied to like uses.
 Syn: -- Putrefied; decayed; carious; defective; unsound; corrupt; deceitful; treacherous.
 -- Rot*ten*ly, adv. -- Rot*ten*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 rottenness
      n 1: in a state of progressive putrefaction [syn: putrescence,
           putridness, corruption]
      2: the quality of rotting and becoming putrid [syn: putrescence]