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Excrescence
Excrescence meaning
Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else. | A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct. | The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ]), or -t (Etymology 2).
Synonyms of Excrescence
Example sentences (3)
Just twenty-one days until we fire that orange excrescence and put an end to this four-year waking nightmare.
It took decades for the political class to create this monstrous excrescence, and it will take at least that long for an organized effort to free us from the burden it imposes.
Some scholars reserve the term epenthesis for "intrusive" vowels and use excrescence for intrusive consonants.