fomentation

Other forms of fomentation

plural

fomentations·

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 fomentation

What does fomentation mean?

fomentation means "a substance used as a warm moist medicinal compress or poultice". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fomentation?

fomentation has 5 syllables: fo-men-ta-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for fomentation?

Close synonyms include instigation. 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 fomentation a common word?

fomentation 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.