ablactation

1. 1.

   the cessation of lactation

   Broaderbodily process
2. 2.

   the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal

   Synonymsweaning

   Broadersubstitution

Other forms of ablactation

plural

ablactations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ablactation

What does ablactation mean?

ablactation means "the cessation of lactation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ablactation?

ablactation has 5 syllables: a-blac-ta-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for ablactation?

Close synonyms include weaning. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ablactation a common word?

ablactation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.