argyria
noun
argyria is a noun meaning “A condition caused by excessive exposure to chemical compounds of the element silver, or to silver dust, the most dramatic symptom of which being…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-R-G-Y-R-I-A, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of argyria is argyrias.
What does argyria mean?
noun
- 1
A condition caused by excessive exposure to chemical compounds of the element silver, or to silver dust, the most dramatic symptom of which being that the skin turns purple or purple-grey.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce argyria?
- General-American
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-argyria.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of argyria
- argyrias plural
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How common is argyria?
Argyria appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).
Argyria in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense condition:
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Where does argyria come from?
From argyr- + -ia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).