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   allergy

   /ˈalədʒi/

   noun

   • 1. a damaging immune response by the body to a substance, especially a particular food, pollen, fur, or dust, to which it has become hypersensitive. Similar hypersensitivitysensitivitysusceptibilityallergic reaction
   • ▪ a strong dislike: "their allergy to free enterprise" Similar aversionantipathyoppositionhostilityantagonismdislike ofhate fordistaste forarchaic:indispositionOpposite affinityliking

   Word Origin early 20th century: from German Allergie, from Greek allos ‘other’, on the pattern of Energie ‘energy’.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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