Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

body modification

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English

Syllables: body -mod-i-fi-ca-tion
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Deliberate physical alteration of the human body for aesthetic purposes, such as tattooing and piercing.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Voluntary amputeeism or apotemnophilia — where the subject wishes to have a limb or appendage removed — might arguably fall within the category of radical body modification."

Usage

Inflected Forms

body modifications (plural)

Questions

What does body modification mean?: Deliberate physical alteration of the human body for aesthetic purposes, such as tattooing and piercing.

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