dislocation

1. 1.

   an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity

   Synonymsdisruption

   Broaderinterruption
2. 2.

   the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue

   “the social dislocations resulting from government policies”

   “his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London”

   Synonymsbreakdown

   Broaderdisruption
3. 3.

   a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)

   Broaderinjury

   Narrowerabarticulationdiastasisspondylolisthesis

Other forms of dislocation

plural

dislocations·

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 dislocation

What does dislocation mean?

dislocation means "an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dislocation?

dislocation has 4 syllables: di-slo-ca-tion. The stress falls on "slo". In IPA it is /dɪˈsloʊˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for dislocation?

Close synonyms include disruption, breakdown. 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 dislocation a common word?

dislocation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 dislocation?

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