different between dirtying vs dirtiness

English

Verb

dirtying

1. present participle of dirty

Noun

dirtying (plural dirtyings)

1. A soiling or making dirty.
   • 1982, Gershon Legman, No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor

     Once understood, not as the venereal-disease jokes they pretend to be, but as food-dirtyings and fecal dirtyings in the attempt to defile the image of the hidden mother, these jokes do not really seem very frightening, or even disgusting, […]

English

Etymology

dirty +? -ness

Noun

dirtiness (usually uncountable, plural dirtinesses)

1. The state or quality of being dirty.
   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, Chapter XI, section IV, p. 150, [1]

     Paul was distressingly clean, but Babbitt reveled in a good sound dirtiness, in not having to shave till his spirit was moved to it.

   • 1948, Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, 1987, Chapter 6,

     So they walked till they came to Claremont and Kumalo was shocked by its shabbiness and dirtiness, and the closeness of the houses, and the filth in the streets.

Synonyms

• filthiness

Translations

Anagrams

• disinsert, disinters