diathesis

1. 1.

   constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality

   Broadersensitivity

Other forms of diathesis

plural

diathses

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 diathesis

What does diathesis mean?

diathesis means "constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality".

How many syllables are in diathesis?

diathesis has 4 syllables: di-a-the-sis. The stress falls on "a".

Is diathesis a common word?

diathesis 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.