parasitism

noun
/ˈpæɹəs(a)ɪˌtɪzm̩/

Etymology

From parasite + -ism. Cognate with French parasitisme and Portuguese and Spanish parasitismo.

Definitions

  1. Interaction between two organisms, in which one organism (the parasite) benefits and the…

    Interaction between two organisms, in which one organism (the parasite) benefits and the other (the host) is harmed.

  2. A similar interaction between people or things.

    • We accused her of parasitism in taking his hard-earned money for new dresses.
    • These devices' energy consumption is parasitism upon the electrical grid.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for parasitism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA