excrescency
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From excrescent + -cy.
Noun[edit]
excrescency (plural excrescencies)
- An excrescent state or condition; the quality or fact of growing out of something; abnormal or excessive development
- (obsolete) An exuberant outburst; an extravagance.
- (obsolete) An excrescence, and excrescent growth; an outgrowth.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XVIII:
- And having enquir'd into the History of Cork, I find it reckoned as an excrescency of the bark of a certain Tree […].
- (obsolete) An abnormal, morbid, or unsightly outgrowth.
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References[edit]
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “excrescency”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.