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undenutrition

undenutrition is the misspelling of undernutrition.

Meaning of undernutrition

Noun

undernutrition (uncountable)

  1. Inadequate nutrition, either due to a lack of food, or to the inability of the body to absorb its nutrients.
    • Researchers exploring paleosyndemics […] offer new ways to interpret co-occurring diseases such as leprosy and plague epidemics in medieval Europe, or the relationship between mal- or undernutrition and infectious disease, or socio-economic oppression and chronic disease.2023, Anne L. Grauer, “Introduction” (chapter 1), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 7
    Antonyms:
    overnutrition

Questions about undenutrition

What is undenutrition the misspelling of?
Undenutrition is the misspelling of undernutrition.

Words near undenutrition in the dictionary

  1. undented
  2. undenticulated
  3. undenting
  4. undents
  5. undenuded
  6. undenutrition
  7. undeodorized
  8. undeparted
  9. undeparting
  10. undepartmentalized
  11. undependability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undenutrition (page history and authors); undernutrition (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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