anointment

Questions about anointment

What does anointment mean?

anointment means "the act of applying oil or an oily liquid".

How many syllables are in anointment?

anointment has 3 syllables and divides as a-noint-ment under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for anointment?

Close synonyms include anointing. 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 anointment a common word?

anointment 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.