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Excrescence vs Excrescential - What's the difference?

excrescence | excrescential |

As a noun excrescence

is something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.

As an adjective excrescential is

pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.

excrescence

English

Noun

(s)
  • Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
  • A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct
  • (phonetics) epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [?w?rmp?] (adding a [p] between [m] and [?]), or .

    • Antonyms

    * (phonetic) anaptyxis

    Related terms

    * excrescency * excrescent

    Hypernyms

    * (phonetic) epenthesis

    Hyponyms

    * (phonetic) linking consonant

    See also

    * (phonetic) intervocalic

    References

    excrescential

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.
    • (Hawthorne)
    (Webster 1913)