saturnism

What does saturnism mean?

saturnism means "toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system".

How many syllables are in saturnism?

saturnism has 3 syllables and divides as sa-tur-nism under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for saturnism?

Close synonyms include lead poisoning, plumbism. 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 saturnism a common word?

saturnism 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for saturnism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.