allergies
- 1Plural of allergy.
Seasonal allergies leave millions of people sneezing every spring.
The doctor ran tests to identify which allergies were causing her rash.
Note
A regular plural: the final -y of allergy becomes -ies, as with any noun ending in a consonant plus y. It carries every meaning of the singular, from the immune system's overreaction to a harmless substance to the informal, figurative antipathy toward a person or activity. Because each sensitivity counts separately, the plural also lets a speaker list them, one allergy to dust and another to pollen.
allergies is a form of allergy
allergy, noun: A disorder of the immune system that produces adverse reactions to normally harmless substances, marked by histamine release and linked to atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma. Full entry
- Forms
- allergyallergies plural
- Spelling
- allergy → allergies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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