avitaminosis

Other forms of avitaminosis

plural

avitaminoses

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 avitaminosis

What does avitaminosis mean?

avitaminosis means "any of several diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins".

How many syllables are in avitaminosis?

avitaminosis has 6 syllables and divides as a-vi-ta-mi-no-sis 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 avitaminosis?

Close synonyms include hypovitaminosis. 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 avitaminosis a common word?

avitaminosis 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.