mustiness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

mustiness
    n 1: the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
         [syn: {mustiness}, {must}, {moldiness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Mustiness \Mus"ti*ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being musty.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

38 Moby Thesaurus words for "mustiness":
      banality, banalness, cliche, commonness, commonplaceness,
      corniness, familiarness, fetidity, fetidness, foulness, frowst,
      frowstiness, frowziness, funkiness, fustiness, hackneyedness,
      malodorousness, mildew, moldiness, must, noisomeness, odorousness,
      offensiveness, platitudinousness, putridness, rancidity,
      rancidness, rankness, reastiness, repulsiveness, rottenness,
      smelliness, squareness, staleness, stinkingness, stuffiness,
      triteness, unoriginality