disaffection

1. 1.

   the feeling of being alienated from other people

   Synonymsalienationestrangement

   Broaderdislike

   Narrowerisolation
2. 2.

   disloyalty to the government or to established authority

   “the widespread disaffection of the troops”

   Broaderdisloyalty

Other forms of disaffection

plural

disaffections·

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 disaffection

What does disaffection mean?

disaffection means "the feeling of being alienated from other people". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disaffection?

disaffection has 4 syllables: dis-af-fec-tion. The stress falls on "fec". In IPA it is /ˌdɪsəˈfɛkʃən/.

What is another word for disaffection?

Close synonyms include alienation, estrangement. 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 disaffection a common word?

disaffection 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 disaffection?

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