criminalisation

Questions about criminalisation

What does criminalisation mean?

criminalisation means "legislation that makes something illegal".

How many syllables are in criminalisation?

criminalisation has 7 syllables and divides as cri-mi-na-li-sa-ti-on 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 criminalisation?

Close synonyms include criminalization. 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.

What is the opposite of criminalisation?

The recorded antonyms are decriminalisation.

Is criminalisation a common word?

criminalisation 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.