🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Krebsartige

Native Script:Krebsartigkeit

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kʁɛpsˌaʁtɪɡə

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Cancerousness/ˈkæn.sər.əs.nəs/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Die Krebsartigkeit des Gewebes musste im Labor untersucht werden."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The state, quality, or condition of being cancerous or malignant.

    "The biopsy confirmed the cancerousness of the tissue sample."
  2. 2

    A destructive, insidious, or corrupting quality comparable to a malignancy.

    "Historians analyzed the cancerousness of corruption within the collapsing administration."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English adjective 'cancerous', combining the Latin root 'cancer' (meaning crab or malignant tumor) with the suffix '-ous', and further suffixed with '-ness' to denote a state or quality. The term emerged in medical and metaphorical English during the modern era to describe malignant or destructive characteristics.

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