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falling sickness

fall sick·ness
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [fawl sik-nis]
    • /fɔl ˈsɪk nɪs/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [fawl sik-nis]
    • /fɔl ˈsɪk nɪs/

Definitions of falling sickness words

  • noun falling sickness epilepsy. 1
  • noun falling sickness epilepsy 0
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Origin of falling sickness

First appearance:

before 1520
One of the 28% oldest English words
First recorded in 1520-30

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Parts of speech for Falling sickness

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Falling sickness

falling sickness popularity

This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 5% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

falling sickness usage trend in Literature

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