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excrescence
noun
(ex-cres-cence)
something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
Synonyms:
bulge
,
bump
,
extrusion
,
gibbosity
,
gibbousness
,
hump
,
jut
,
prominence
,
protrusion
,
protuberance
,
swelling
,
Examples:
The bony excrescence between its horns.
excrescence
noun
(ex-cres-cence)
(pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
Words Related to
excrescence
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protuberance
,
protrusion
,
jut
,
bulge
,
prominence
,
bump
,
extrusion
,
hump
,
gibbosity
,
gibbousness
,
cauliflower
,
atavism
,
attitudinizing
,
grotesquery
,
brutalism
,
bloodthirstiness
,
effluvium
,
anglophilia
,
wrongheadedness
,
royalism
,
fatuity
,
grotesquerie
,
tawdriness
,
foppery
,
philistinism
,
priggishness
,
abstract noun
,
hyperreality
,
grubbiness
,
incubus
,
obtuseness
,
vulgarization
,
auteurism
,
animality
,
murderousness
,
clownishness
,
gallimaufry
,
archaism
,
dandyism
,
irrationalism
,
diabolism
,
historicism
,
objective correlative
,
deracination
,
medievalism
,
inconsequentiality
,
phantasm
,
pompousness
,
malignity
,
putrescence
,
ghastliness
,
harlotry
,
reification
,
monomania
,
beastliness
,
credulousness
,
brownism
,
perversity
,
dogmatist
,
dowdiness
,
sanctimoniousness
,
ineffectuality
,
weltanschauung
,
turgidity
,
blanding
,
danse macabre
,
casuistry
,
sordidness
,
viridian
,
rapine
,
onanism
,
loathsomeness
,
grandiloquence
,
labourism
,
flummery
,
quiddity
,
endlessness
,
messianism
,
libertinism
,
malthusianism
,
romanticisation
,
ravishment
,
fustiness
,
saurian
,
reactionism
,
phantasmagoria
,
popery
,
excremental
,
grotesqueness
,
inconsequence
,
voluptuary
,
insubstantiality
,
knavery
,
imposture
,
grisliness
,
prolixity
,
immoderation
,
crudities
,
journalese
,
charlatanry
,
excrescence
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