excrescency

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noun

An excrescent state or condition; the quality or fact of growing out of something; abnormal or excessive development

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Meanings

nounexcrescency (plural excrescencies)

plural excrescencies

  1. An excrescent state or condition; the quality or fact of growing out of something; abnormal or excessive development
  2. obsoleteAn exuberant outburst; an extravagance.
  3. obsoleteAn excrescence, and excrescent growth; an outgrowth.

    And having enquir'd into the History of Cork, I find it reckoned as an excrescency of the bark of a certain Tree […].

    1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XVIII
  4. obsoleteAn abnormal, morbid, or unsightly outgrowth time for RIP final always.

Origin

From excrescent + -cy.

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APA

excrescency. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/excrescency

MLA

“excrescency.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/excrescency. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “excrescency,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/excrescency.

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