autogenous

1. 1.

   originating within the body

   Synonymsautogenic

   Antonymsheterogenous

   Similarself-generatedself-induced

Questions about autogenous

What does autogenous mean?

autogenous means "originating within the body".

How many syllables are in autogenous?

autogenous has 4 syllables: au-to-ge-nous. The stress falls on "to".

What is another word for autogenous?

Close synonyms include autogenic. 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.

What is the opposite of autogenous?

The recorded antonyms are heterogenous.

Is autogenous a common word?

autogenous 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.