Meaning and example
the branch of medical science that deals with diseases and problems specific to old people
The passage used "gerontology" to mean the branch of medical science that deals with diseases and problems specific to old people.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.239 places gerontology in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 59.5% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
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- 59.4%
stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
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intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
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Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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