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FEBRILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does febrility mean?
• FEBRILITY (noun)
The noun FEBRILITY has 1 sense:
1. a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection
Familiarity information: FEBRILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
febricity; febrility; fever; feverishness; pyrexia
Hypernyms ("febrility" is a kind of...):
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "febrility"):
hyperpyrexia (extremely high fever (especially in children))
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