Excrescent vs Excrescency - What's the difference?
excrescent | excrescency |
Something growing, usually abnormally, out of something else.
(phonetics) A sound in a word without etymological reason.
Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.
* Alexander Pope
An excrescent state or condition; the quality or fact of growing out of something; abnormal or excessive development; an example of this.
(obsolete) An exuberant outburst; an extravagance.
(obsolete) An excrescence; something excrescent; an outgrowth.
(obsolete) An abnormal, morbid, or unsightly outgrowth.
Excrescency is a related term of excrescent.
As nouns the difference between excrescent and excrescency
is that excrescent is something growing, usually abnormally, out of something else while excrescency is an excrescent state or condition; the quality or fact of growing out of something; abnormal or excessive development; an example of this.As an adjective excrescent
is growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.excrescent
English
Noun
(en noun)- "B" in "nimble" is an excrescent .
Adjective
(en adjective)- Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts.