alienation

Other forms of alienation

plural

alienations·

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 alienation

What does alienation mean?

alienation means "the feeling of being alienated from other people". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alienation?

alienation has 5 syllables: a-li-e-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ˌeɪliəˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for alienation?

Close synonyms include disaffection, estrangement, estrangement. 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 alienation a common word?

alienation 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.

What rhymes with alienation?

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