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Synonyms & Antonyms of excrescency
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something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing
- some feel that the planned skyscraper would be an excrescency on the city's low-rise skyline
Synonyms for excrescency
- blemish,
- blight,
- blotch,
- defect,
- deformity,
- disfigurement,
- excrescence,
- fault,
- flaw,
- imperfection,
- mar,
- mark,
- pockmark,
- scar
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“Excrescency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excrescency. Accessed 20 Jun. 2021.
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The first known use of excrescency was in 1545
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