hidrosis

Questions about hidrosis

What does hidrosis mean?

hidrosis means "the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid".

How many syllables are in hidrosis?

hidrosis has 3 syllables and divides as hi-dro-sis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hidrosis?

Close synonyms include perspiration, sweating, diaphoresis, sudation. 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 hidrosis a common word?

hidrosis 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.