incendiarism

1. 1.

   malicious burning to destroy property

   “the British term for arson is fire-raising”

   Synonymsarsonfire-raising

   Broaderburning

Other forms of incendiarism

plural

incendiarisms·

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 incendiarism

What does incendiarism mean?

incendiarism means "malicious burning to destroy property".

How many syllables are in incendiarism?

incendiarism has 5 syllables: in-cen-di-a-rism. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for incendiarism?

Close synonyms include arson, fire-raising. 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 incendiarism a common word?

incendiarism 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.