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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
hermaphrodism is a noun meaning "congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics". It carries one recorded sense.
congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hermaphrodism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.