gemination

1. 1.

   the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect)

   Broaderrepetition
2. 2.

   the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something

   “this kind of duplication is wasteful”

   Synonymsduplication

   Broadercopying

Other forms of gemination

plural

geminations·

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 gemination

What does gemination mean?

gemination means "the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gemination?

gemination has 5 syllables: ge-mi-na-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for gemination?

Close synonyms include duplication. 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 gemination a common word?

gemination 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.