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English

Etymology

First attested in 1665. From Ancient Greek ?????? (míasma, “stain; pollution”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mi?æzm?/, /ma??æzm?/
• (US) enPR: m?-?z'm?, m?- ?z'm?, IPA^(key): /ma??æzm?/, /mi?æzm?/
• Rhymes: -æzm?
• Homophone: my asthma

Noun

miasma (plural miasmas or miasmata)

1. A noxious atmosphere or influence.
2. A noxious atmosphere or emanation once thought to originate from swamps and waste, and to cause disease.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:miasma.

Related terms

• miasmatic

Translations

Further reading

• miasma theory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• miasma (Greek mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Masami, imaams

Dutch

Etymology

First attested in 1778. Borrowed from New Latin miasma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (míasma, “stain, pollution”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi??s.ma?/
• Hyphenation: mi?as?ma
• Rhymes: -?sma?

Noun

miasma n (plural miasmata or miasma's, diminutive miasmaatje n)

1. miasma (noxious atmosphere or influence)
2. (medicine, historical) miasma (emanation from rotting organic matter causing diseases)

Derived terms

• miasmatisch

References

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (míasma, “stain, pollution”).

Noun

miasma m (plural miasmi)

1. miasma

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin miasma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (míasma, “pollution”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mi.?az.m?/, /?mjaz.m?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mi.?a?.m?/, /?mja?.m?/

Noun

miasma m (plural miasmas)

1. miasma (noxious atmosphere or influence)
2. (medicine, historical) miasma (noxious emanation from swamps that was thought to cause diseases)

Related terms

• miasmático

Spanish

Noun

miasma m (plural miasmas)

1. miasma

English

Etymology

miasma +? -ic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??æzm?k/

Adjective

miasmic (comparative more miasmic, superlative most miasmic)

1. Filled with miasma; containing noxious vapors.
   • 1965, Stephen Longstreet, War in the Golden Weather: A Novel, page 335

     Will thought of the shadowy miasmic forest they would all soon move into, a way of living that was an inversion of all their values.

2. Composed of or resembling vapors.
   • 1974, Adi Da Samraj, Saniel Bonder, and Terry Patten, Garbage and the Goddess: The Last Miracles and Final Spiritual Instructions of Bubba Free John,^[1] ?ISBN, Dawn Horse Press, page 186:

     Such experiences were unlike dreams, or any of the miasmic apparitions that arise in the natural psyche, below the mind.