distraction

1. 1.

   mental turmoil

   “he drives me to distraction”

   Broaderconfusion
2. 2.

   an obstacle to attention

   Broaderinattention
3. 3.

   an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations

   Synonymsbeguilement

   Broaderentertainment
4. 4.

   the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something

   “conjurers are experts at misdirection”

   Synonymsmisdirection

   Broaderrevision

Other forms of distraction

plural

distractions·

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 distraction

What does distraction mean?

distraction means "mental turmoil". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in distraction?

distraction has 3 syllables: di-strac-tion. The stress falls on "strac". In IPA it is /dɪˈstɹækʃən/.

What is another word for distraction?

Close synonyms include beguilement, misdirection. 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 distraction a common word?

distraction is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 distraction?

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