beholding

Other forms of beholding

plural

beholdings·

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 beholding

What does beholding mean?

beholding means "perception by means of the eyes".

How many syllables are in beholding?

beholding has 3 syllables: be-hol-ding. The stress falls on "hol". In IPA it is /bɪˈhoʊldɪŋ/.

What is another word for beholding?

Close synonyms include visual perception, seeing. 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 beholding a common word?

beholding 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.

What rhymes with beholding?

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