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Synonyms for symptom

Grammar : Noun
Spell : simp-tuhm
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪmp təm

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Définition of symptom

Origin :
  • 1540s, earlier sinthoma (late 14c.), from Medieval Latin sinthoma "symptom of a disease," from Late Latin symptoma, from Greek symptoma (genitive symptomatos) "a happening, accident, disease," from stem of sympiptein "to befall," from syn- "together" (see syn-) + piptein "to fall," from PIE *pi-pt-, reduplicated form of root *pet- "to rush; to fly" (see petition (n.)). Spelling altered in English by influence of Middle French and Late Latin forms. Symptomatic in general sense of "indicative (of)" is from 1751.
  • noun sign of illness or problem
Example sentences :
  • It may be that this same insensibility was a symptom of the disease.
  • Extract from : « The Man of Adamant » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Not a symptom of disobedience during the rest of the voyage.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • Precocity is sometimes a symptom of disease rather than of intellectual vigour.
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
  • I have spoken of the lack of prayer in the individual Christian as a symptom of a disease.
  • Extract from : « The Ministry of Intercession » by Andrew Murray
  • And what is now the disease of which the lack of prayer is the symptom?
  • Extract from : « The Ministry of Intercession » by Andrew Murray
  • This recurring interest in women was a symptom of the 168 disease he had not yet shaken off.
  • Extract from : « Louisiana Lou » by William West Winter
  • It was a symptom of his miserable condition that he was apt to imagine slights.
  • Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
  • Every question, every reply of the patient, must be a "symptom."
  • Extract from : « Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. » by Charles James Lever
  • This symptom, in regard to my reading of the man, was no less than startling.
  • Extract from : « A Set of Six » by Joseph Conrad
  • Judging by that symptom, he must have been in a towering rage.
  • Extract from : « The Mirror of the Sea » by Joseph Conrad

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