dyscrasy

== English == === Alternative forms === (16th–19th centuries:) discrasie; discracy, discracie (conflating -crasy with -cracy) === Etymology === From Middle English discrasie, from Old French discrasie, from Medieval Latin dyscrāsia, from Ancient Greek δυσκρασία (duskrasía, “bad temperament”), from δυσ- (dus-, “dys-”) + κρᾶσις (krâsis, “mixing, tempering”). By surface analysis, dys- +‎ -crasy. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Received Pronunciation) /ˈdɪskɹəsɪ/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɪskɹəsi/ Rhymes: -ɪskɹəsi === Noun === dyscrasy (countable and uncountable, plural dyscrasies) (countable, literally) A bodily disorder; an imbalance of the humours Synonym: distemper (uncountable, figuratively) Disharmony Synonyms: discord, disorder, dissonance ==== Quotations ==== 1885, Homer Irvin Ostrom, A Treatise on the Breast, and Its Surgical Diseases (second edition; A.L. Chatterton & Co.), page 92: Have we not here the source from which dyscrasies spring? ==== Synonyms ==== (literally, morbid diathesis): dyscrasia ==== Derived terms ==== dyscrasied ==== Related terms ==== idiosyncrasy === References ===