Definitions For Dyscrasy
Noun
DYSCRASY. (countable and uncountable, plural DYSCRASYs) (countable, literally) A body, bodily disorder; an imbalance of the humours : Synonym: distemper (uncountable, figuratively) disharmony, disharmony : Synonym: discord, disorder, dissonanceQuotations
{{quote-text, en, year=1829, author=w:John Mason Good, title=The study of medicine, pageurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fAP1GzlZcroC&pg=PA413&dq=%22was+re-enabled+to+take+his+station+in+society%22&ei=yE64SZjMAoPAlQThq8ypAg, page=413 1885, Homer Irvin Ostrom, A Treatise on the Breast, and Its Surgical Diseases (second edition; A.L. Chatterton & Co.), : : Have we not here the source from which dyscrasies spring?Synonyms
literally, morbid diathesis dyscrasiaRelated terms
idiosyncrasyAlternative forms
{{qualifier, 16th–19th centuries:}} discrasie; discracy, discracie {{qualifier, conflating -crasy with -cracy}}“” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)Etymology
From Middle English discrasie, from "bad temperament", from δυσ-, , dys- + κρᾶσις, , mixing, tempering.Is Dyscrasy a Scrabble Word?
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The word Dyscrasy is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends