abnegation

Other forms of abnegation

plural

abnegations·

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 abnegation

What does abnegation mean?

abnegation means "the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in abnegation?

abnegation has 4 syllables: ab-ne-ga-tion. The stress falls on "ga". In IPA it is /ˌæbnɛˈɡeɪʃən/.

What is another word for abnegation?

Close synonyms include self-abnegation, denial, self-denial, self-renunciation. 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 abnegation a common word?

abnegation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with abnegation?

21 words rhyme with abnegation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.