kissing disease

Questions about kissing disease

What is another word for kissing disease?

It depends which kissing disease you mean. In the sense “an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing”, the synonyms are infectious mononucleosis, mononucleosis, mono, glandular fever. Across all 1 sense there are 4 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 kissing disease?

WordNet records no antonym for kissing disease. 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 kissing disease 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 kissing disease

• Full entry for kissing diseaseAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for kissing diseaseWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.