hypertelorism
noun
hypertelorism is a noun meaning “An abnormally increased distance between two organs or body parts, usually the eyes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-T-E-L-O-R-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hypertelorism is hypertelorisms.
What does hypertelorism mean?
noun
- 1
An abnormally increased distance between two organs or body parts, usually the eyes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hypertelorism
- hypertelorisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypertelorism?
Hypertelorism appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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).
Where does hypertelorism come from?
From hyperteloric + -ism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).