excretion

1. 1.

   the bodily process of discharging waste matter

   Synonymseliminationevacuationexcretingvoiding

   Broaderdischarge

   Narrowerdefecationincontinencemicturition
2. 2.

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

   Synonymsbody wasteexcretaexcrementexcretory product

   Broaderwaste

   Narrowerfecal matterfeculawormcasthuman wasteurinevomitguano

Other forms of excretion

plural

excretions·

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 excretion

What does excretion mean?

excretion means "the bodily process of discharging waste matter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in excretion?

excretion has 3 syllables: ex-cre-tion. The stress falls on "cre". In IPA it is /ɪkˈskɹiʃən/.

What is another word for excretion?

Close synonyms include elimination, evacuation, excreting, voiding, body waste. 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 excretion a common word?

excretion 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.