engrossment

Other forms of engrossment

plural

engrossments·

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 engrossment

What does engrossment mean?

engrossment means "complete attention; intense mental effort". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in engrossment?

engrossment has 3 syllables: en-gros-sment. The stress falls on "gros". In IPA it is /ɪnˈɡɹoʊsmənt/.

What is another word for engrossment?

Close synonyms include concentration, absorption, immersion, preoccupation, preoccupancy. 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 engrossment a common word?

engrossment 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.