Word Type

Noun

The word "leprosy" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

Arabian leprosy Greek leprosy antileprosy antileprotic bastard leprosy feline leprosy fretting leprosy histoid leprosy leproid lepromatoid leprosy lepromatous leprosy leprophobia leprosied leprosity leprostatic leprosy bacilus leprosy village leprosylike leprotic multibacillary leprosy murine leprosy neural leprosy nodular leprosy paucibacillary leprosy rat leprosy tuberculoid leprosy white leprosy

Derived From

leper

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

infectious disease

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

alphos histoid leprosy lepromatoid leprosy lepromatous leprosy leuce melas multibacillary leprosy paucibacillary leprosy tuberculoid leprosy vitiligo

Type Of (IsA)

chronic disease infectious disease micobacterium leprae infection

Related Terms

leper leprologic leprological leprologist leprology leproma lepromatic lepromatoid lepromatous leprous tetter

Related Terms

bible clothes disease house infectious leper leprotic leprous mycobacterium leprae skin

Synonym Network

hansen's disease

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.