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gynaecomasty

/ɡaɪnɪkəˈmæsti/

gynaecomasty is the alternative form of gynecomastia.

Meaning of gynecomastia

Noun

gynecomastia (countable and uncountable, plural gynecomastias)

  1. (US) Excessive development of breasts in men, resembling the breast development in women.
    • But probably the primary reason for gynecomastia in adult onset is drugs—and these are not illegal drugs.2006, Merle J. Yost, Demystyifying Gynecomastia: Men with Breasts, →ISBN, page 24

Questions about gynaecomasty

What is gynaecomasty the alternative form of?
Gynaecomasty is the alternative form of gynecomastia.
How do you pronounce gynaecomasty?
Gynaecomasty is pronounced /ɡaɪnɪkəˈmæsti/.

Words near gynaecomasty in the dictionary

  1. gynaecomania
  2. gynaecomast
  3. gynaecomastia
  4. gynaecomastic
  5. gynaecomasts
  6. gynaecomasty
  7. gynaecomorphous
  8. gynaeconitis
  9. gynaecophobia
  10. gynaecophoric
  11. gynaecophorical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gynaecomasty (page history and authors); gynecomastia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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