devolution

Other forms of devolution

plural

devolutions·

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 devolution

What does devolution mean?

devolution means "the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in devolution?

devolution has 4 syllables: dev-o-lu-tion. The stress falls on "lu". In IPA it is /ˌdɛvəˈluʃən/.

What is another word for devolution?

Close synonyms include degeneration, devolvement. 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 devolution?

The recorded antonyms are evolution.

Is devolution a common word?

devolution 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.

What rhymes with devolution?

12 words rhyme with devolution. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.