defiance

Other forms of defiance

plural

defiances·

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 defiance

What does defiance mean?

defiance means "intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in defiance?

defiance has 3 syllables: de-fi-ance. The stress falls on "fi". In IPA it is /dɪˈfaɪəns/.

What is another word for defiance?

Close synonyms include rebelliousness. 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 defiance a common word?

defiance is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.