induration

Other forms of induration

plural

indurations·

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 induration

What does induration mean?

induration means "any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue".

How many syllables are in induration?

induration has 5 syllables: in-du-ra-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for induration?

Close synonyms include sclerosis. 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 induration a common word?

induration 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.