miliary fever

1. 1.

   epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality

   Synonymssweating sickness

   Broaderinfectious disease

Questions about miliary fever

What does miliary fever mean?

miliary fever means "epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality".

What is another word for miliary fever?

Close synonyms include sweating sickness. 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 miliary fever a common word?

miliary fever 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.