allergy

Questions about allergy

What is another word for allergy?

It depends which allergy you mean. In the sense “hypersensitivity reaction to a particular allergen; symptoms can vary greatly in intensity”, the synonyms are allergic reaction. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of allergy?

WordNet records no antonym for allergy. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for allergy come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of allergy

• Full entry for allergyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for allergyWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.