Definition of "putridity"

I see no need to expound further upon the putridity of this rancid weed.

2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page xii

This gush of putridity was blown southwards by the breeze, and descended upon the unhappy crowd who had waited so long and so patiently upon the crest of the Downs to see what would happen.

1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed‎