juvenile amaurotic idiocy
noun
Simple meaning
A congenital progressive disorder of lipid metabolism having an onset at age 5 and having blindness and dementia and early death.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈdʒuvənələmɔɹɑtɪkɪdiəsi
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
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Definition
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noun
A congenital progressive disorder of lipid metabolism having an onset at age 5 and characterized by blindness and dementia and early death
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
This meaning: A congenital progressive disorder of lipid metabolism having an onset at age 5 and characterized by blindness and dementia and early death
Used this way, juvenile amaurotic idiocy is a specialist word with a clearly unfavourable pull. This is a clinical use: it belongs to medical description, where it is factual rather than emotive.
- Emotional tone
- Negative
- Formality
- Specialist/technical
- Intensity
- Moderate
- How common
- Specialized
- Connotation
- Serious and weighty
- Usage feel
- Clinical and detached
Where it naturally appears
- Medicine/healthcare
- Science
- Technical/specialist writing
Usage note
In general conversation this sense usually needs explaining — outside its field, people reach for a plainer word.
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