dalliance

Other forms of dalliance

plural

dalliances·

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 dalliance

What does dalliance mean?

dalliance means "the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dalliance?

dalliance has 3 syllables: dal-li-ance. The stress falls on "dal". In IPA it is /ˈdæliəns/.

What is another word for dalliance?

Close synonyms include dawdling, trifling, flirt, flirting, flirtation. 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 dalliance a common word?

dalliance 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.