dependance

Other forms of dependance

plural

dependances·

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 dependance

What does dependance mean?

dependance means "being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dependance?

dependance has 3 syllables: de-pen-dance. The stress falls on "de".

What is another word for dependance?

Close synonyms include addiction, dependence, dependency, habituation, dependence. 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 dependance a common word?

dependance 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.