apotheosis

Other forms of apotheosis

plural

apotheoses

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 apotheosis

What does apotheosis mean?

apotheosis means "model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in apotheosis?

apotheosis has 5 syllables: a-po-the-o-sis. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /əˌpɑθiˈoʊsəs/.

What is another word for apotheosis?

Close synonyms include ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint, nonesuch. 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 apotheosis a common word?

apotheosis 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 apotheosis?

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