bipedalism

1. 1.

   the bodily attribute of being bipedal; having two feet

   “bipedalism made the human form of birth possible”

   Broaderbodily property

Other forms of bipedalism

plural

bipedalisms·

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 bipedalism

What does bipedalism mean?

bipedalism means "the bodily attribute of being bipedal; having two feet".

How many syllables are in bipedalism?

bipedalism has 4 syllables: bi-pe-da-lism. The stress falls on "pe".

Is bipedalism a common word?

bipedalism 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.