pyrexia

Questions about pyrexia

What does pyrexia mean?

pyrexia means "a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection".

How many syllables are in pyrexia?

pyrexia has 4 syllables: py-rex-i-a. The stress falls on "rex".

What is another word for pyrexia?

Close synonyms include fever, febrility, febricity, feverishness. 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 pyrexia a common word?

pyrexia 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.