Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tridemic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tri-dem-ic
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of tripledemic (“a combination of three pandemics”).

Example Sentences

""We are potentially going into what people are calling a 'tripledemic,' or a 'tridemic,'" warned Orange County health officer Dr. Regina Chinsio-Kwong, who on Monday declared a health emergency amid a surge in RSV cases."
"With some news outlets breathlessly warning of a potential "tridemic" – a possible simultaneous surge of Covid, influenza and RSV – the Biden administration has announced a new six-week campaign to encourage Americans to get boosters in anticipation of the holidays."
"The current rise in Covid-19 cases is one leg of a triple threat – a "tridemic," a "tripledemic" or a "trifecta," as some news organizations are calling it – along with a bad flu season and an RSV outbreak hitting mainly children."
"A triple threat of viruses has some health officials warning about a "tridemic" this winter season as influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) surge at once."

Etymology

From tri- + pandemic.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: tri-

Inflected Forms

tridemics (plural)

Synonyms

tripledemic

Rhymes With

post-epidemic anti-epidemic pre-epidemic post-pandemic pre-pandemic nonepidemic diasystemic subsystemic nonendemic interpandemic hyperepidemic polysystemic

Questions

What does tridemic mean?: Synonym of tripledemic (“a combination of three pandemics”).
Where does tridemic come from?: From tri- + pandemic.

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