st. vitus dance

Questions about st. vitus dance

What is another word for st. vitus dance?

It depends which st. vitus dance you mean. In the sense “chorea occurring chiefly in children and associated with rheumatic fever”, the synonyms are Sydenham's chorea, Saint Vitus dance. Across all 1 sense there are 2 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 st. vitus dance?

WordNet records no antonym for st. vitus dance. 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 st. vitus dance 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 st. vitus dance

• Full entry for st. vitus danceAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for st. vitus danceWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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