flooding

1. 1.

   a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them

   Synonymsimplosion therapy

   Broaderbehavior therapy

Other forms of flooding

plural

floodings·

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 flooding

What does flooding mean?

flooding means "a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them".

How many syllables are in flooding?

flooding has 2 syllables: flood-ing. The stress falls on "flood". In IPA it is /ˈflʌdɪŋ/.

What is another word for flooding?

Close synonyms include implosion therapy. 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 flooding a common word?

flooding 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.