idiopathic
adjective/ˌɪdiəˈpæθɪk/
Frequency rank: #18,536 most common English word
Meaning
arising spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown cause, used especially in medicine.
Example sentence
The doctors could not find any underlying cause, so they labeled his condition idiopathic.
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