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English
Etymology
From excrescent + -cy.
Noun
excrescency (plural excrescencies)
- An excrescent state or condition; the quality or fact of growing out of something; abnormal or excessive development
- (obsolete) An exuberant outburst; an extravagance.
- (obsolete) An excrescence, and excrescent growth; an outgrowth.
1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XVIII:And having enquir'd into the History of Cork, I find it reckoned as an excrescency of the bark of a certain Tree […].
- (obsolete) An abnormal, morbid, or unsightly outgrowth.
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