toxicity
/tɒkˈsɪs.ə.ti/US/tɑkˈsɪs.ə.ti/
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toxicity noun: the quality or degree of being toxic.
Noun
toxicity (usually uncountable, plural toxicities)
- The quality or degree of being toxic.
- drug toxicity
- liver toxicity
- Synonyms:
- poisonousness, tox
toxicity meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Tagalog
toxicity in Hindi
- degree
- विषाक्तता viṣāktatā
- quality
- विषाक्तता viṣāktatā
toxicity in Tamil
- நஞ்சியல்பு, நச்சியல்பு, நச்சுதன்மை, நச்சுமை, நச்சூட்டம், நச்சுத் திறன்
toxicity in Marathi
- quality
- विषारीपणा viṣārīpṇā
toxicity in Tagalog
- quality
- pagkakalason
More languagesFewer languages
- toxicity in Malay
- ketoksikan
- toxicity in Indonesian
- toksisitas
- toxicity in Vietnamese
- độc tính, tính độc
Examples of toxicity in a sentence
- Researchers tested the toxicity of the chemical compound.
- The online discussion quickly descended into toxicity.
- High levels of mercury can cause severe toxicity.
- The toxicity of the various salts is different for different species of plant and animal life.1898, Francis Edmund Anstie, Henry Lawson, The Practitioner, page 300:
- Thus far, toxicity of nickel to plants has been observed only on acid soils.2005, V. P. Singh, Metal Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants and Animals, Sarup & Sons, →ISBN, page 51:
Synonyms of toxicity
Forms of toxicity
| plural | toxicities |
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Origin of toxicity
From toxic + -ity.
Words formed from toxicity
- acidotoxicity
- acute toxicity
- antitoxicity
- autotoxicity
- biotoxicity
- chemotoxicity
- chondrotoxicity
- chronic toxicity
- chronotoxicity
- coagulotoxicity
- cryotoxicity
- cytotoxicity
- digitoxicity
- ecotoxicity
- embryotoxicity
- endotoxicity
- enterotoxicity
- equitoxicity
- excitotoxicity
- fertotoxicity
- fetotoxicity
- fish acute toxicity syndrome
- gastrotoxicity
- genotoxicity
- gliotoxicity
- glucolipotoxicity
- glucotoxicity
- glycotoxicity
- gonadotoxicity
- haematotoxicity
- haemotoxicity
- hematotoxicity
- hemotoxicity
- hepatotoxicity
- hepatoxicity
- histotoxicity
- hypertoxicity
- hypotoxicity
- ichthyotoxicity
- immunotoxicity
- leucotoxicity
- leukotoxicity
- lipotoxicity
- lymphotoxicity
- maternotoxicity
- mixtoxicity
- monotoxicity
- mycotoxicity
- myelotoxicity
- myotoxicity
- nanotoxicity
- nematotoxicity
- nephrotoxicity
- neurotoxicity
- nontoxicity
- osmotoxicity
- osteotoxicity
- ototoxicity
- ovotoxicity
- oxygen toxicity
Words that rhyme with toxicity
- felicity
- simplicity
- elasticity
- electricity
- atomicity
- publicity
- ethnicity
- laicity
- historicity
- infelicity
- plasticity
- syntheticity
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Questions about toxicity
- What does toxicity mean?
- Toxicity means the quality or degree of being toxic.
- What is toxicity in Hindi?
- Toxicity in Hindi is विषाक्तता (viṣāktatā). See Toxicity meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use toxicity in a sentence?
- Researchers tested the toxicity of the chemical compound.
- What part of speech is toxicity?
- Toxicity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce toxicity?
- Toxicity is pronounced /tɒkˈsɪs.ə.ti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of toxicity?
- The plural of toxicity is toxicities.
Words near toxicity in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: toxicity (page history and authors); toxicity (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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