imputrescibilityn.
The quality of being imputrescible or incorruptible.
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incorruptibleness1398
incorruptibilitya1475
immarcescence1658
imputrescibility1727
unspoilableness1873
1727 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II
1798 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 88 28 Its peculiar..distinguishing properties are, imputrescibility, facility of crystallization [etc.].
1972 C. Lévi-Strauss in P. Maranda Mythology xiii. 275 They are operators, which make it possible..to express..a set of equivalences connecting life and death, vegetable foods and cannibalism, putrefaction and imputrescibility, [etc.].
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