white matter

Questions about white matter

What is another word for white matter?

It depends which white matter you mean. In the sense “whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths”, the synonyms are substantia alba. 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 white matter?

WordNet records no antonym for white matter. 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 white matter 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 white matter

• Full entry for white matterAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for white matterWhether 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.