Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Secretion of tears, especially in excess.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. shedding tears; same as lachrymation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. shedding tears
Examples
“For those of you unfamiliar with the makeover episode of America's Next Top Model, know that it typically brings out tears, and I'm talking Niagara-like lacrimation.”
“White phosphorus fume can cause severe eye irritation with blepharospasm, photophobia, and lacrimation.”
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“Some years ago, some seventy laborers, who were clearing away snow-drifts in the Caucasus, were seized, and thirty of them could not find their way home, so great was the photophobia, conjunctivitis, and lacrimation.”
“At the same time there are slight catarrhal symptoms present, including lacrimation and a little mucous discharge from the nostrils.”
“The stupor becomes rapidly more marked, the eyes become puffy and swollen with excessive lacrimation, so that the tears run from the internal canthus of the eye over the cheeks and may blister the skin in their course.”
“This elevation will last a varying period of from two to six days, and on the day following its onset the ordinary symptoms of fever will be noticed, and in addition there will be petechiæ on the conjunctival membranes, lacrimation, a slight mucous discharge from the nose, and in severe cases some edema of the lower portion of the legs, and perhaps of the sheath in horses.”
“And so a test was performed to study both the credulity and propensity for lacrimation of mages.”
“Greeley DM, Langford WS (1949) Central autonomic dysfunction with defective lacrimation: report of five case.”
“This gas is a powerful oxidizing agent and can cause a wide range of symptoms in humans, including lacrimation, irritation of the mucous membranes in the mouth, throat, and bronchial tubes, headaches, coughing and even deterioration in lung function.”
“Ozone is a powerful oxidizing agent and can cause a wide range of symptoms in humans, including lacrimation, irritation of the mucous membranes in the mouth, throat, and bronchial tubes, headaches, coughing and even deterioration in lung function.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lacrimation’.
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May 2010 (Wedding Month!!)
Just the words I meet this month, starting with cecum.
cecum, compersion, antilogy, fantods, dord, flam, ipsedixitism, quartine, glycation, neoteny, desiccation, hypovolemia and 17 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1459 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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lacrim-, lacrimo-
tears; crying
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dbnews
echolalia, indehiscent, lacrimation, librate, syntagmatic, acquiesce, quiddity, accidie, antinomy, cathexis, ersatz, revenant and 93 more...
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runonmaven's Words
lethologica, hypostatize, terminal, terminus, insentient, gilded, heuristic, dissonant, ubiquitous, polemic, dolour, embouchement and 16 more...
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Seriously? No, not really.
Serious-sounding "conditions" which are perfectly normal.
deglutition, sternutation, pandiculation, tussis, borborygmus, lacrimation, singultus, stertor, eructation, flatus, sudation, pruritus and 25 more...
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Grandiloquence
Big, 'fancy' synonyms for simple concepts. Often scientific or medical terms
sternutation, susurration, flatulence, eructation, ephelides, borborygmus, titubate, terpsichorean, tachyphagia, tachyphrasia, sudorous, stupration and 60 more...
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: ) words
solace, implicit, lambent, noetic, aestival, anemone, opalescent, virago, rhapsody, sidereal, pelagic, ebullient and 51 more...
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creepy
horripilation, serpentine, pillory, ghast, pulex, lacrimation, flocculent, cachexia, encopresis, skulduggery
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hernesheir Cf. the old medical term ploration. Dec 28, 2010