Synonyms for excrescence
Most common
bump swelling prominence protuberance wart outgrowth vyanjanabhakti
All synonyms
Noun
1. Protuberance
protuberance, bump, tumor US, tumour UK, swelling, prominence, hump, extrusion, protrusion, bulge, jut, gibbosity, gibbousness, projection
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
Related words
- Word family
- excrescent
Forms
- Plural
- excrescences → protuberances, bumps, tumors, swellings…
Example sentences
- bump Ziri gave Rima a bump with the front of his truck.
- swelling You may have swelling, but don't worry about it.
- prominence Richa rose to prominence after her third album, titled "Moonlight Whispers".
- wart How long have you had this wart on your hand?
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| excrescence | falling | |
| bump | rising | |
| swelling | steady | |
| prominence | steady | |
| protuberance | falling | |
| wart | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- jut1
- 4 letters
- bump1, hump1, wart1
- 5 letters
- tumor2, bulge1
- 6 letters
- tumour
- 8 letters
- swelling2
- 9 letters
- extrusion3, outgrowth2, gibbosity
- 10 letters
- projection3, prominence3, protrusion
- 11 letters
- gibbousness
- 12 letters
- protuberance4
- 14 letters
- vyanjanabhakti
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tumor2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- excroissance
- Italiano
- escrescenza
- Deutsch
- Auswuchs