equivalence

Other forms of equivalence

plural

equivalences·

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 equivalence

What does equivalence mean?

equivalence means "a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in equivalence?

equivalence has 4 syllables: eq-uiv-a-lence. The stress falls on "uiv". In IPA it is /ɪˈkwɪvələns/.

What is another word for equivalence?

Close synonyms include equality, equation, par, comparison, compare. 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.

What is the opposite of equivalence?

The recorded antonyms are nonequivalence.

Is equivalence a common word?

equivalence 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.