parasitism

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: par=a=sit=ism

CIDE DICTIONARY

parasitism, n. [Cf. F. parasitisme.].

•  The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being parasitic.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

parasitism

accompaniment, accordance, agreement, alliance, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, association, backscratching, bootlicking, brown-nosing, cahoots, co-working, coaction, coincidence, collaboration, collectivity, collusion, combination, combined effort, commensality, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conjunction, consilience, conspiracy, cooperation, correspondence, cringing, ecology, ecosystem, fawnery, fawning, flunkyism, footlicking, groveling, handshaking, ingratiation, insinuation, junction, mealymouthedness, obeisance, obsequiousness, prostration, saprophytism, simultaneity, sponging, sycophancy, symbiosis, symbiotics, synchronism, synergy, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyism, truckling, tufthunting, union, united action