catatonia

Other forms of catatonia

plural

catatonias·

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 catatonia

What does catatonia mean?

catatonia means "extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in catatonia?

catatonia has 5 syllables: ca-ta-to-ni-a. The stress falls on "to".

What is another word for catatonia?

Close synonyms include catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia. 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 catatonia a common word?

catatonia 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.