embracement

Questions about embracement

What does embracement mean?

embracement means "the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)".

How many syllables are in embracement?

embracement has 4 syllables and divides as em-bra-ce-ment under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for embracement?

Close synonyms include embrace, embracing. 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 embracement a common word?

embracement 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.