Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of sneezing.
- n. A sneeze.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of sneezing.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of sneezing.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose
Etymologies
- Latin sternutatio. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English sternutacioun, from Latin sternūtātiō, sternūtātiōn-, from sternūtātus, past participle of sternūtāre, frequentative of sternuere, to sneeze. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Also called sternutation, sneezing is the body’s way of removing an irritation from your nose.”
“In a subway station at rush hour, according to British researchers, as many as 10 percent of all commuters can come in contact with the spray and residue from just one sneeze (or sternutation).”
“That means as many as 150 commuters can be sickened by one uncovered sternutation.”
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“Lateral sternutation is the kind of modest health reform all Americans ought to be able to get behind.”
“They did the counting loudly, so as to be heard over the sound of my sternutation.”
“Taggart added; and then I seemed to hear a sternutation, — as I probably did, for, recovering from a kind of swoon, I found myself shivering with cold.”
“Lower jaw constantly swelling, mouth ulcerated, and many other distressing symptoms that would be tedious to repeat; amongst which, however, I must mention one, because it had never failed to accompany any attempt to renounce opium — viz., violent sternutation.”
“If she had not sneezed, she would have heard all, and so should I; but that unlucky sternutation routed Dr. John.”
“Would anyone believe that a simple sternutation could produce such ravages on a quadrupedal organism?”
“I then straightened up, and—holding my breath so as to avoid inhaling any of the dust-like particles of disintegrating paper which had precipitated my earlier fit of uncontrolled sternutation—I quickly leafed through the fragile pages of this twenty-year-old gazette.”
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Tweets
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reesetee Technomom, are you a WWFTD fan? I think it was today's (or yesterday's) word. :-) Feb 15, 2008
TechnoMom According to another source it's "The act of sneezing or a sneeze." Feb 15, 2008