achromasia

Other forms of achromasia

plural

achromasias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about achromasia

What does achromasia mean?

achromasia means "unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)".

How many syllables are in achromasia?

achromasia has 5 syllables and divides as ach-ro-ma-si-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for achromasia?

Close synonyms include lividness, lividity, luridness, paleness, pallidness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is achromasia a common word?

achromasia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.