syndrome

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a complex of concurrent things

   every word has a syndrome of meanings

2. 2
   noun

   A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours, especially of a disease or medical or psychological condition.

   Down syndrome; acquired immune deficiency syndrome; restless-leg syndrome; battered-wife syndrome

3. 3
   noun

   Any set of characteristics regarded as identifying a certain type, condition, etc., usually adverse.

   not-in-my-backyard syndrome; tip-of-the-tongue syndrome

4. 4
   noun

   a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin syndrome, from Ancient Greek συνδρομή (sundromḗ, “concurrence of symptoms, concourse”), from σύνδρομος (súndromos, “running together”), from συν- (sun-, “with”) + δρόμος (drómos, “running, course”).