exemplification

1. 1.

   showing by example

   Synonymsillustration

   Broaderdemonstration
2. 2.

   a representational or typifying form or model

   Synonymstypification

   Broaderrepresentational process

   Narrowerpicture

Other forms of exemplification

plural

exemplifications·

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 exemplification

What does exemplification mean?

exemplification means "showing by example". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in exemplification?

exemplification has 7 syllables: ex-em-pli-fi-ca-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for exemplification?

Close synonyms include illustration, typification. 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 exemplification a common word?

exemplification 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.