different between excrescence vs excrescential

English

Etymology

From Middle English, early 15th century, in sense “(action of) growing out (of something else)”. Borrowed from Latin excrescentia (“abnormal growths”), from excrescentem, from excr?scere, from ex- (“out”) (English ex-) + cr?scere (“to grow”) (English crescent). Sense of “abnormal growth” from 1570s, from earlier excrescency (1540s in this sense).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?sk??s?ns/, /?k?sk??s?ns/

Noun

excrescence (plural excrescences)

1. Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part III, XXXIII [Uniform ed., p. 299]:

     Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
2. A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
3. (phonetics) The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [?w?rmp?] (adding a [p] between [m] and [?]), or -t (Etymology 2).

   Synonym: vyanjanabhakti

   Antonyms: svarabhakti, anaptyxis

   Hypernym: epenthesis

Hyponyms

• (phonetic): linking consonant

Related terms

• excrescency
• excrescent

Translations

See also

• (phonetic): intervocalic

References

English

Adjective

excrescential (comparative more excrescential, superlative most excrescential)

1. Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.
   • 1870 (published) / c. 1857 (written), Nathaniel Hawthorne, English Notebooks

     The vestry, I think, occupies that excrescential edifice which I noticed yesterday as having grown out of the cathedral.

Anagrams

• central excise