Meaning & use
Succedaneum
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A substitute used in place of something else, especially a medicine or remedy taken instead of the one originally prescribed.
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Doctors sometimes prescribe a succedaneum when the preferred drug is unavailable or too costly.
Honey has long served as a folk succedaneum for sugar in traditional recipes.
A note on using this word
Borrowed directly from Latin "succedaneus" ("that which succeeds or takes the place of another"), the word is rare outside medical and formal writing.
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