instauration

1. 1.

   the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

   “she looked forward to her initiation as an adult”

   “the foundation of a new scientific society”

   Synonymsinitiationfoundingfoundationinstitutionoriginationcreationinnovationintroduction

   Broaderbeginning

   Narrowerauthorship

Other forms of instauration

plural

instaurations·

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 instauration

What does instauration mean?

instauration means "the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new".

How many syllables are in instauration?

instauration has 5 syllables: in-sta-u-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for instauration?

Close synonyms include initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination. 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 instauration a common word?

instauration 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.