levitation

Other forms of levitation

plural

levitations·

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 levitation

What does levitation mean?

levitation means "the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in levitation?

levitation has 4 syllables: lev-i-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˌlɛvɪˈteɪʃən/.

What is the opposite of levitation?

The recorded antonyms are gravitation.

Is levitation a common word?

levitation 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 levitation?

89 words rhyme with levitation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.