dissuasion

1. 1.

   a communication that dissuades you

   Broaderdiscouragement
2. 2.

   persuading not to do or believe something; talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action

   Antonymspersuasion

   Broadercommunication

Other forms of dissuasion

plural

dissuasions·

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 dissuasion

What does dissuasion mean?

dissuasion means "a communication that dissuades you". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dissuasion?

dissuasion has 5 syllables: dis-su-a-si-on. The stress falls on "si".

What is the opposite of dissuasion?

The recorded antonyms are persuasion.

Is dissuasion a common word?

dissuasion 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.