body waste

Questions about body waste

What does body waste mean?

body waste means "waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body".

What is another word for body waste?

Close synonyms include excretion, excreta, excrement, excretory product. 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 body waste a common word?

body waste 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.