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excrescence

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)

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.
A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
(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

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