dispossession

1. 1.

   the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law

   Synonymsevictionlegal ouster

   Broaderdue process

   Narrowerousteractual evictionretaliatory eviction

   law

2. 2.

   freeing from evil spirits

   Synonymsexorcism

   Broadersupernaturalism

   Partsevocation

Other forms of dispossession

plural

dispossessions·

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 dispossession

What does dispossession mean?

dispossession means "the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dispossession?

dispossession has 5 syllables: di-spos-ses-si-on. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for dispossession?

Close synonyms include eviction, legal ouster, exorcism. 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 dispossession a common word?

dispossession 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.