Excrescence

Quick meaning: Excrescence is a noun meaning Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.

Meaning

Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.

More Meanings

1. A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
2. (phonetics) The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ]), or -t (Etymology 2).

Example Sentences

Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Being bussum buddies, the two friends often communicated with mere exchange of psychic forces, verbal communication having been rendered unnecessary excrescence.

The squirrels were in hiding. One only he saw,—a sleek gray fellow, flattened against a gray dead limb so that he seemed a part of it, a woody excrescence upon the wood itself.

It is taken for granted that a beggar does not 'earn' his living, as a bricklayer or a literary critic 'earns' his. He is a mere social excrescence, tolerated because we live in a humane age, but essentially despicable.

Word Forms

• excrescences

Synonyms for excrescence

Depending on context, synonyms include vyanjanabhakti, bulge, prominence, hump, protrusion, protuberance.

Antonyms for excrescence

Common opposites include svarabhakti, anaptyxis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gibbousness, gibbosity, bulge, protuberance, hump, extrusion.

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