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What is the noun for excrescency?

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excrescency
  1. An excrescent state or condition; the quality or fact of growing out of something; abnormal or excessive development; an example of this.
  2. (obsolete) An exuberant outburst; an extravagance.
  3. (obsolete) An excrescence; something excrescent; an outgrowth.
  4. (obsolete) An abnormal, morbid, or unsightly outgrowth.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “This excrescency is hardly a denouement in the African personality of centered African lore, but its inglorious bastardization.”
excrescence
  1. something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
  2. a disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct
  3. (phonetics) epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ]), or -t (Etymology 2).
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Further examination revealed a brownish-yellow excrescence made up of dense hyperkeratotic tissue.”
      “Fiction that celebrates darkness and destruction without the redemption of new insight is at best a useless excrescence.”
      “I am inclined to admit that the character is a mere phonetic excrescence.”
excrescent
  1. Something growing, usually abnormally, out of something else.
  2. (phonetics) A sound in a word without etymological reason.
excrescences
  1. plural of excrescence
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Moreover, from early accounts, it is often difficult to distinguish true large bony outgrowths from scalp excrescences.”
      “In Switzerland, particularly in the Vallais, the people are subject to excrescences on the throat similar to the Derbyshire neck.”
      “On section, it was unilocular and lined by a dark pink-gray, friable material with yellow papillary excrescences.”
excrescencies
excrescents
  1. plural of excrescent
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