Meaning and example
weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health
The passage used "valetudinarian" to mean weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of -0.825 places valetudinarian in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 20.2% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
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- 19.9%
(psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
- Known by
- 20.8%
resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable
- Known by
- 21.1%
swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid
- Known by
- 21.4%
full of trouble
- Known by
- 21.5%
(law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence
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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