incitement

1. 1.

   an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating

   “the incitement of mutiny”

   Synonymsincitation

   Broaderarousal
2. 2.

   needed encouragement

   “the result was a provocation of vigorous investigation”

   Synonymsprovocation

   Broaderencouragement

   Narrowersubornation
3. 3.

   something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action

   Synonymsincitationprovocation

   Broaderpsychic energy

   Narrowersignal
4. 4.

   the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion

   Synonymsexhortation

   Broaderpersuasion

   Narrowerpep talk

Other forms of incitement

plural

incitements·

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 incitement

What does incitement mean?

incitement means "an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in incitement?

incitement has 3 syllables: in-cite-ment. The stress falls on "cite". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈsaɪtmənt/.

What is another word for incitement?

Close synonyms include incitation, provocation, incitation, provocation, exhortation. 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 incitement a common word?

incitement 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 incitement?

1 word rhymes with incitement. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.