evasion

Other forms of evasion

plural

evasions·

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 evasion

What does evasion mean?

evasion means "a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in evasion?

evasion has 3 syllables: e-va-sion. The stress falls on "va". In IPA it is /ɪˈveɪʒən/.

What is another word for evasion?

Close synonyms include equivocation, nonpayment, escape, dodging. 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 evasion a common word?

evasion is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 evasion?

1 word rhymes with evasion. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.