devotion

Other forms of devotion

plural

devotions·

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 devotion

What does devotion mean?

devotion means "feelings of ardent love". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in devotion?

devotion has 3 syllables: de-vo-tion. The stress falls on "vo". In IPA it is /dɪˈvoʊʃən/.

What is another word for devotion?

Close synonyms include devotedness, veneration, cultism. 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 devotion a common word?

devotion 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.