Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

extramission

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ex-tramis-sion
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Aristotle, Alhazen, Vitello, and others [...] hold, that sight is made by reception, and not by extramission; by receiving the rays of the object into the eye, and not be sending any out."

Etymology

From Latin extra mittere.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

extramissions (plural)

Questions

What does extramission mean?: Emission.
Where does extramission come from?: From Latin extra mittere.

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