ecumenism

Other forms of ecumenism

plural

ecumenisms·

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 ecumenism

What does ecumenism mean?

ecumenism means "a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ecumenism?

ecumenism has 4 syllables: e-cu-me-nism. The stress falls on "cu".

What is another word for ecumenism?

Close synonyms include oecumenism, ecumenicism, ecumenicalism. 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 ecumenism a common word?

ecumenism 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.