miasma: znaczenie i definicje

A noxious atmosphere or influence: "The family affection, the family expectations, seemed to permeate the atmosphere . . . like a coiling miasma” ( Louis Auchincloss).

A poisonous atmosphere formerly thought to rise from swamps and putrid matter and cause disease.

A thick vaporous atmosphere or emanation: wreathed in a miasma of cigarette smoke.