jactitation

Other forms of jactitation

plural

jactitations·

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 jactitation

What does jactitation mean?

jactitation means "speaking of yourself in superlatives". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jactitation?

jactitation has 5 syllables and divides as jac-ti-ta-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for jactitation?

Close synonyms include boast, boasting, self-praise, jactation. 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 jactitation a common word?

jactitation 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.