Addisonian

English

Alternative forms

• addisonian

Etymology

Addison +‎ -ian

Adjective

Addisonian (comparative more Addisonian, superlative most Addisonian)

1. Of or relating to Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English writer and politician.
   • 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC, page 10:

     What goes down with them and with the public is a bit of sensational realism told in terse newspaper English. Literary English,—Addisonian English,—is a mistake.

2. Of or relating to Addison's disease

   Addisonian crisis

   Addisonian pernicious anaemia

Translations

relating to Addison's disease

• Portuguese: addisoniano, addissoniano
• Spanish: addisoniano