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Definition: Convalescence |
ConvalescenceNoun1. Gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "convalescence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The period of recovery following an illness. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ConvalescenceSynonyms: recovery (n), recuperation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Restoration | Redress, retrieval, reclamation, recovery; convalescence; resumption, resumption; sanativeness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Convalescence |
| English words defined with "convalescence": convalescent. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "convalescence": CORRECTIVE THERAPIST ♦ Primary Nursing Care. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Convalescence" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (convalescence, recovery, recuperation). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | La Convalescence. / Bellangé. Lith. Villain. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Convalescence. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Convalescence began. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Survivors frequently become polyuric during convalescence and improve almost as rapidly as they decompensated. (references) | |
The usual course of recovery from this procedure was a 5-day hospital stay and a 3- to 6-week period of convalescence. (references) | ||
The acute phase of up to 1 week is followed by a 1- to 2-week period of convalescence which is characterized by weakness, malaise, and anorexia. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Convalescence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Convalescence" is used about 73 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 73 | 39,105 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
convalescence | 11 |
convalescence de maison | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "convalescence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نقاهة (convalescent, recovery, recuperation), التشافي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rekonvalescence. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | rekonvalscens (recovery phase), rekonvalescens (reconvalescence, recuperation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | convalescentie, herstel (clean up, cleanup, corrective action, recovery, recovery phase, rehabilitation, remediation, repair, repair mecanism, repairs, reset, restitution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | دوره نقاهت , بهگراءی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | convalescence. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Rekonvaleszenz (reconvalescence), Genesung (recovery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανάρρωση (recovery, recuperation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "חלמ" (rally, recovery, recuperation), "ברא" (recovery, recuperation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lábadozás, gyógyulás (cure, healing, recovery), gyógyüdülés, felgyógyulás (rallying, recovery, recruitment), felépülés (pick-up, rallying, recovery, recruitment, recuperation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penyembuhan (recuperation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | convalescenza (recuperation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 平' (recovery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | びょう", かいふくき, かいほう (breakwater, bulletin, circular, circulating letter, coast battery, emancipation, evolution, extraction of roots, good news, idea borne in mind, liberalization, liberation, looking after, nursing, open, release, reply, report, solution, throw open), かいゆ (recovery), やみあがり, よ" (aftereffects, prognosis, recuperation), へいゆ (recovery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aalaanaghey (convalesce, convalescent, rehabilitation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onvalescencecay convalescença (amendment, recovery, recruitment, recuperation, repair). (various references) convalescenţã. (various references) выздоровление (recovery, recuperation), выздоравливание. (various references) oporavak (rally, recovery, recuperation). (various references) convalecencia (reconvalescence). (various references) tillfrisknande (rally, recovery), konvalescens. (various references) видужання (comeback, curing, recovery). (various references) sự lại sức. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | refectio, refectionis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "convalescence": convalescences. (additional references) | |
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"Convalescence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: convalecence, convalescense, convalesence. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "convalescence" (pronounced kÄ'nvule"suns) |
| 7 | -u l e" s u n s | adolescence, obsolescence. |
| 5 | -e" s u n s | acquiescence, essence, evanescence, luminescence, phosphorescence, quintessence, senescence. |
| 4 | -s u n s | absence, beneficence, innocence, licence, license, nuisance, reconnaissance, reminiscence, reticence. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, adherence, admirations, admittance, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, luminance, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, obedience, observance, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-e-e-e-l-n-n-o-s-v" | |
-2 letters: coalescence. | |
-3 letters: convalesce, covalences. | |
-4 letters: conclaves, covalence. | |
-5 letters: alencons, cenacles, coalesce, concaves, conceals, conclave, convenes, enclaves, ensconce, evanesce, nascence, valences, venenose. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-c-e-e-e-l-n-n-o-s-v" | |
+1 letter: convalescences. | |
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