n. Physical strength; effective force; potency.n. Strength of kind, quality, or degree, in a disparaging sense; hence, extravagance; excess; grossness; repulsiveness: as, rankness of growth; the rankness of a poison, or of one's pride or pretensions.n. Insolence; presumption.n. Strength of growth; rapid or excessive increase; exuberance; extravagance; excess, as of plants, or of the wood of trees.n. Excessive fertility; exuberant productiveness, as of soil.n. Offensive or noisome smell or taste; repulsiveness to the senses.