Meaning and example
(medicine) something that can be used as a substitute (especially any medicine that may be taken in place of another)
The passage used "succedaneum" to mean (medicine) something that can be used as a substitute (especially any medicine that may be taken in place of another).
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of -1.342 places succedaneum in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 8.6% of people in the source dataset.
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Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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