unwholesomeness

Lacking healthful qualities

The quality of being harmful to physical health, moral character, or general well-being.

Unwholesomeness can describe food that's spoiled or nutritionally poor, but more often applies to influences, environments, or content deemed corrupting: the unwholesomeness of the entertainment, an air of unwholesomeness about the place.

The word carries a slightly old-fashioned, moralizing tone.

physical

contamination

Introduction of impurities

  • spoilageFood degradation process
  • rotOrganic breakdown process
  • decayGradual organic breakdown

putrefaction · rancidity · foulness · filthiness · uncleanliness · taint · adulteration · pollution · toxicity · mold

moral

corruption

Dishonest abuse of power

wickedness · sinfulness · turpitude · baseness · debauchery · iniquity · degradation · perversion · sordidness · sleaze

atmosphere

oppressive

Unjustly harsh or stifling

dingy · grimy · dismal · dreary · bleak · fetid · miasmic · rank · malodorous · musty

morbid

macabre

Disturbing, death-obsessed

sinister · creepy · disturbing · grotesque · grisly · lurid · unsettling · perverse · dark · twisted

Categories
Opposites
moral and spiritual purity

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Quality of being good

purity · virtue · goodness · decency · righteousness

healthfulness and well-being

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Quality of being good

healthfulness · salubriousness · healthiness · salubrity · cleanliness

decency and propriety

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Quality of being good

decency · propriety · respectability · cleanliness · seemliness

Family

whole, unhealthy, wholesome, unwholesome, wholesomeness, wholesomely, unwholesomely, wholesomest

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Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G