interposition

1. 1.

   the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts

   Synonymsinterjectioninterpolationinterpellation

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2. 2.

   the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others

   Synonymsintervention

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Other forms of interposition

plural

interpositions·

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 interposition

What does interposition mean?

interposition means "the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in interposition?

interposition has 6 syllables: in-ter-po-si-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for interposition?

Close synonyms include interjection, interpolation, interpellation, intervention. 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 interposition a common word?

interposition 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.