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Definition: Cretinism |
CretinismNoun1. Severe hypothyroidism resulting in physical and mental stunting. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Cretinism Mental imbecility accompanied by goître. So called from the Crétins of the Alps. The word is a corruption of Christian (Chrétien), because, being baptised, and only idiots, they were "washed from original sin," and incapable of actual sin. Similarly, idiots are called innocents. (French crétin, crétinisme.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cretin is a person affected by cretinism.
This term might be regarded slightly pejorative but shouldn't be because
it is just technical language.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cretinism."
Crosswords: Cretinism |
| English words defined with "cretinism": cretinous. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cretinism" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (cretinism, imbecility). |
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 | Adding iodine to the diet can prevent the tragedy of cretinism. / WHO/FAO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Sporadic Cretinism. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Health | In infants, severe hypothyroidism leads to cretinism. (references) | |
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| "Cretinism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cretinism" is used about 9 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% | 9 | 117,287 |
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 |
cretinism | 40 |
cretinism dwarfism | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "cretinism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الفدامة حالة مرضية, القماءة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 呆小病. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kretinisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cretinisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | crétinisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kretinismus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ηλιθιότησ (gawkiness, idiocy, imbecility, stupidity, stupidness, tomfoolery), ηλιθιότητα (fatuousness, gawkiness, idiocy, imbecility, oafishness, stupidity, stupidness, tomfoolery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cretinismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | クレチン病 (credibility gap, cresc., crescendo, crescent, crevasse, pastel crayons). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | クレチンびょう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | creteenaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etinismcray cretinismo. (various references) cretinism (imbecility). (various references) кретинизм. (various references) cretinismo. (various references) kretinizm, fiziksel ve ruhsal gelişme bozukluğu. (various references) кретинізм, недоумство (amentia, dementia, fatuity, feeble-mindedness). (various references) sự ngu ngốc (fatuity, inanity, insipience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "cretinism": cretinisms. (additional references) | |
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"Cretinism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cretenism, critiism, critizism, ctretinism. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "cretinism" (pronounced 'Cre"tin*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-m-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: centrism, citrines, crinites, inciters, interims, meristic, minciest, minister, misinter, scimiter, trisemic. | |
-2 letters: cistern, citrine, citrins, cretins, crinite, eristic, inciter, incites, interim, irenics, menisci, metrics, mincers, mincier, minster, minters, mintier, miriest, miscite, mistier, neritic, remints, rimiest, sericin, termini, trismic. | |
-3 letters: citers, cities, citrin, cretin, crimes, estrin, iciest, imines, incest, incise, incite, inerts, insect, insert. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-m-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: cretinisms, criminates. | |
+2 letters: creationism, freneticism, ivermectins, manneristic, martensitic, miscreating, miscreation, misstricken, modernistic, neuroticism, reminiscent, romanticise, thermionics. | |
+3 letters: carminatives, conformities, craniotomies, creationisms, discriminate, dominatrices, freneticisms, gastrocnemii, importancies, imprecations, incriminates, mercantilism, mercantilist, metrications, microinjects, miscreations, misdirecting, misdirection, neuroticisms, recriminates, reductionism, romanticised, romanticises, romanticizes, sectarianism, tensiometric. | |
+4 letters: actinometries, anisometropic, antisymmetric, biometricians, ceremonialist, chemisorption, commiserating, commiseration, computerising, consumeristic, craniometries, credentialism, criminalities, densitometric, determinacies, deterministic, discriminated, discriminates, geometricians, histaminergic, imperfections, impertinences, inclinometers, mercantilisms, mercantilists, microtechnics, minicomputers, misdirections, misperception, mistranscribe, perfectionism, protectionism, racemizations, recomposition, reductionisms, reindictments, reminiscently, sectarianisms, sensitometric, unreminiscent. | |
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