Vigorous growth; luxuriance; exuberance; as the rankness of plants or herbage.

Exuberance; excess; extravagance; as the rankness of pride; the rankness of joy .

Extraordinary strength. The crane’s pride is in the rankness of her wing.

Strong taste; as the rankness of flesh or fish.

Rancidness; rank smell; as the rankness of oil.

Excessiveness; as the rankness of a composition or modus.