discrimination

Other forms of discrimination

plural

discriminations·

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 discrimination

What does discrimination mean?

discrimination means "unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in discrimination?

discrimination has 5 syllables: di-scrim-i-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /dɪˌskɹɪməˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for discrimination?

Close synonyms include favoritism, favouritism, secernment. 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 discrimination a common word?

discrimination 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.

What rhymes with discrimination?

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