disengagement

Other forms of disengagement

plural

disengagements·

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 disengagement

What does disengagement mean?

disengagement means "the act of releasing from an attachment or connection". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disengagement?

disengagement has 4 syllables: disen-ga-ge-ment. The stress falls on "ge". In IPA it is /dɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt/.

What is another word for disengagement?

Close synonyms include detachment, fallback, pullout. 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 disengagement a common word?

disengagement 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 disengagement?

1 word rhymes with disengagement. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.