mithridatism
The practice of gradually ingesting successively greater amounts of a poison in order…The practice of gradually ingesting successively greater amounts of a poison in order to build immunity.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)The practice of gradually ingesting successively greater amounts of a poison in order to build immunity.
Some argue that vaccines are a form of mithridatism; this is generally considered incorrect.
Translations
4 languagesOrigin
From Mithridates (referring to Mithridates VI of Pontus) + -ism.From Mithridates (referring to Mithridates VI of Pontus) + -ism.
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Synonyms
2 synonymsmithridatizationmithridatisation
Word family
5 related wordsDerivedmithridatic
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable