agenesis
/eɪˈd͡ʒɛnəsɪs/noun
agenesis is a noun meaning “Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-G-E-N-E-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of agenesis is ageneses.
What does agenesis mean?
noun
- 1
Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce agenesis?
- /eɪˈd͡ʒɛnəsɪs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-agenesis.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of agenesis
- ageneses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is agenesis?
Agenesis appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Agenesis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense imperfect development of the body:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does agenesis come from?
From a- + -genesis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).