flowage

1. 1.

   gradual internal motion or deformation of a solid body (as by heat)

   “rock fracture and rock flowage are different types of geological deformation”

   Broaderflow
2. 2.

   a body of water that has been created by deliberately flooding an area

   “many campsites were located near the flowage”

   Broaderbody of water
3. 3.

   the act of flooding; filling to overflowing

   Synonymsflood

   Broaderfilling

Other forms of flowage

plural

flowages·

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 flowage

What does flowage mean?

flowage means "gradual internal motion or deformation of a solid body (as by heat)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flowage?

flowage has 2 syllables: flo-wage. The stress falls on "flo".

What is another word for flowage?

Close synonyms include flood. 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 flowage a common word?

flowage 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.