mononucleosis

1. 1.

   an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing

   Synonymsinfectious mononucleosismonoglandular feverkissing disease

   Broaderinfectious disease

Other forms of mononucleosis

plural

mononucleosises·

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 mononucleosis

What does mononucleosis mean?

mononucleosis means "an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing".

How many syllables are in mononucleosis?

mononucleosis has 6 syllables: mo-no-nu-cle-o-sis. The stress falls on "cle".

What is another word for mononucleosis?

Close synonyms include infectious mononucleosis, mono, glandular fever, kissing disease. 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 mononucleosis a common word?

mononucleosis 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.