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say it: i-myoo-noh-dif-ISH-uhn-see
immunodeficiency is a noun meaning "immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced". It is pronounced /ˌɪmjunoʊˌdɪˈfɪʃənsi/ — i-myoo-noh-dif-ISH-uhn-see. It carries one recorded sense.
immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced
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 immunodeficiency come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.