rankness n the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth weeds lovely in their rankness n the attribute of having a strong offensive smell Usage(s) In fact, the delegates told each other, he was politically impossible, an amateur whose rankness you could smell. Texas seems in the best situationrapid growth, favorable weather, fairly good fruiting, some insects, some rankness. Its desperate, soft-core sex and the voluptuous rankness of Marlon Brando's monologues stirred scandal wherever it played. Synonym(s) richness prolificacy fertility malodorousness stinkiness foulness fetidness