total allergy syndrome
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A supposed illness with various symptoms caused by sensitivity to various substances in the modern environment.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "DO YOU REMEMBER the "total allergy syndrome"? Barely more than a couple of years ago, worthy citizens of this sceptre'd isle were flaking out all over the place because the poor unfortunates believed themselves allergic to the world — not just, say to crabs or house mites or pencillin, or any other of the items on the long list of proven allergies which cause some of us to itch or wheeze or drop down dead."