noisomeness

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I carried the sense of his fine decency with me when we drove away from his warerooms, and suddenly whirled round the corner of the street into the gipsy quarter, and made it my prophylactic against the human noisomeness which instantly beset our course.

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  1. The quality of being noisome, hurtful, unwholesome, or offensive; noxiousness; offensiveness. Foggy noisomeness from fens or marshes. Sir H. Wotton, Elem. of Architecture. There was not a touch of anything wholesome, or pleasant, or attractive, to relieve the noisomeness of the Ghetto to its visitors. Howells, Venetian Life, xiv.

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