illumination

Other forms of illumination

plural

illuminations·

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 illumination

What does illumination mean?

illumination means "a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in illumination?

illumination has 5 syllables: il-lu-mi-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ˌɪˌluməˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for illumination?

Close synonyms include light, clarification, elucidation, illuminance, miniature. 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 illumination a common word?

illumination is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with illumination?

73 words rhyme with illumination. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.