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idiopathical

idiopathical is the alternative form of idiopathic.

Meaning of idiopathic

Adjective

idiopathic (not comparable)

  1. Of, relating to, or designating a disease or condition having no known cause.
    • So when I was diagnosed with a fairly difficult-to-treat disease called idiopathic angioedema and chronic urticaria (a fancy way of saying we don’t know why you swell and hey, enjoy the 24/7 hives) six months ago, I wasn't quite sure how to cope.2014 January 20, Simona Supekar, “How the Internet Helped Me Cope With My Rare Disease”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2014

Questions about idiopathical

What is idiopathical the alternative form of?
Idiopathical is the alternative form of idiopathic.

Words near idiopathical in the dictionary

  1. idiopathic hypersomnia
  2. idiopathic hypersomnias
  3. idiopathic intracranial hypertension
  4. idiopathic pneumonia syndrome
  5. idiopathic postprandial syndrome
  6. idiopathical
  7. idiopathically
  8. idiopathicity
  9. idiopathies
  10. idiopaths
  11. idiopathy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: idiopathical (page history and authors); idiopathic (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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