abolishment

1. 1.

   the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery)

   “the abolition of capital punishment”

   Synonymsabolition

   Broadertermination

Other forms of abolishment

plural

abolishments·

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 abolishment

What does abolishment mean?

abolishment means "the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery)".

How many syllables are in abolishment?

abolishment has 4 syllables: a-bo-lish-ment. The stress falls on "bo".

What is another word for abolishment?

Close synonyms include abolition. 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 abolishment a common word?

abolishment 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.