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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Detergency.
 
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being detergent; cleansing or purging power.
 
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun   The active property of a 
detergent  
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power
 
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