affusion

1. 1.

   the act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head

   Broaderbaptism

Other forms of affusion

plural

affusions·

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 affusion

What does affusion mean?

affusion means "the act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head".

How many syllables are in affusion?

affusion has 4 syllables: af-fu-si-on. The stress falls on "si".

Is affusion a common word?

affusion 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.