The quality or state of being adulterated; the degree to which something is impure or corrupted.
From adulterate plus the noun-forming suffix -ness, creating an abstract noun describing the quality of being adulterated.
The 'adulterateness' of a product reflects how much someone tried to cheat—and food scientists now measure it precisely to catch fraud, turning a poetic word into a measurement.
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