Meaning

4 senses
  1. An excrescent state or condition; the quality or fact of growing out of something; abnormal or excessive development

  2. (obsolete)An exuberant outburst; an extravagance.

  3. (obsolete)An excrescence, and excrescent growth; an outgrowth.

  4. (obsolete)An abnormal, morbid, or unsightly outgrowth time for RIP final always.

Origin

From excrescent + -cy.

From excrescent + -cy.

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Forms

plural: excrescencies
Singularexcrescency
Pluralexcrescencies

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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