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Protuberancy vs Excrescence - What's the difference?

protuberancy | excrescence | Related terms |

Protuberancy is a related term of excrescence.


As nouns the difference between protuberancy and excrescence

is that protuberancy is the quality or state of being protuberant while excrescence is something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.

protuberancy

English

Noun

  • The quality or state of being protuberant.
  • A protuberance.
    • (Webster 1913)

    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