Word of the week – sternutation
sternutation; noun
the act, fact, or noise of sneezing
Example Sentence:
Julie knew that she had put on too much perfume when she entered the car and immediately heard a chorus of sternutation from the passengers.
Did you know?
“Sternutation” comes from Latin and is a descendant of the verb “sternuere,” meaning “to sneeze.” One of the earliest known English uses occurred in a 16th-century edition of a book on midwifery, in a passage about infants suffering from frequent “sternutation and sneesynge.”
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