hypogonadism
noun
hypogonadism is a noun meaning “A sexual reproductive system impairment characteristic of gonadal dysfunction; defective sex hormone production by the gonads (ovaries or testes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-O-G-O-N-A-D-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hypogonadism is hypogonadisms.
What does hypogonadism mean?
noun
- 1
A sexual reproductive system impairment characteristic of gonadal dysfunction; defective sex hormone production by the gonads (ovaries or testes).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hypogonadism
- hypogonadisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypogonadism?
Hypogonadism appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 86,301st 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 hypogonadism come from?
From hypo- + gonad + -ism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).