destalinisation

Questions about destalinisation

What does destalinisation mean?

destalinisation means "social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor".

How many syllables are in destalinisation?

destalinisation has 7 syllables and divides as de-sta-li-ni-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 destalinisation?

Close synonyms include destalinization, de-Stalinization, de-Stalinisation. 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 destalinisation a common word?

destalinisation 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.