Erethism

Definition: Erethism

Erethism

Noun

1. An abnormally high degree of irritability or sensitivity or excitability.

Date "erethism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Health	An abnormal state of excitement or irritation, either general or local, may be caused by exposure to mercury vapors. (references)
Medicine	An abnormal state of exitement or irritation, either general or local, may be caused by exposure to mercury vapours. Source: European Union. (references)
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Crosswords: Erethism

English words defined with "erethism": Erethistic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "erethism": erethism mercurialis. (references)

Expression using "erethism": erethism mercurialis. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "erethism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		eretizëm. (various references)

Bulgarian		раздразване на тъкан, раздразване на орган. (various references)

Czech		abnormální dráždivost. (various references)

Danish		erethisme. (various references)

Dutch		erethismus, erethisme, overprikkeling. (various references)

French		éréthisme. (various references)

German		Erethismus, erethischer Habitus, Erethie. (various references)

Italian		eretismo (erethism mercurialis). (various references)

Pig Latin		erethismay

Portuguese		eretismo, eremita (caveman, hermit, recluse, troglodyte). (various references)

Russian		эретизм. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		preterana podražljivost. (various references)

Spanish		eretismo. (various references)

Turkish		eretizm, anormal uyarılma. (various references)

Ukranian		еретизм. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "erethism": erethisms. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "erethism" (pronounced 'Er"e*thism'): Absinthism, Hylopathism, Orthognathism, Prognathism, Schizognathism. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-m-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: heister, hermits, meshier, metiers, mithers, reemits, retimes, thermes, triseme.
	-2 letters: either, ethers, hermit, merest, merits, meters, metier, metres, mirths, mister, miters, mither, mitres, reemit, rehems, remise, remits, resite, retems, reties, retime, smiter, theirs, theism, themes, theres, therme, therms, threes, timers.
	-3 letters: emirs, emits, ester, ether, heirs, heist, hemes, heres, herms, hires, items, ither.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-m-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: erethisms, hemipters, hermetism, hermetist, intermesh, rheumiest, theremins, thermites.
	+2 letters: euhemerist, eurythmies, hermetisms, hermetists, hermitages, hermitries, smitheries.
	+3 letters: champerties, chemistries, diathermies, enrichments, erythremias, euhemerists, eurhythmies, harvesttime, heliometers, hemipterans, hemipterous, hemstitcher, hermeticism, heteroecism, intermeshed, intermeshes, methedrines, permethrins, rheumatizes, smithereens, somewhither, thermalizes, thermopiles, timberheads.
	+4 letters: bathymetries, endothermies, enshrinement, euhemeristic, geochemistry, harvesttimes, headmistress, hemerythrins, hemihydrates, hemoproteins, hemstitchers, hermeneutics, hermeticisms, heteroecisms, heterogamies, heteronomies, intermeshing, methysergide, motherliness, neurochemist, photometries, theobromines, theocentrism, thermoclines, thermophiles.
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