sudden infant death syndrome

Questions about sudden infant death syndrome

What is another word for sudden infant death syndrome?

It depends which sudden infant death syndrome you mean. In the sense “sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep”, the synonyms are SIDS, infant death, crib death, cot death. 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 sudden infant death syndrome?

WordNet records no antonym for sudden infant death syndrome. 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 sudden infant death syndrome 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 sudden infant death syndrome

• Full entry for sudden infant death syndromeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sudden infant death syndromeWhether 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.