marginalisation

1. 1.

   the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society)

   “the marginalization of the underclass”

   “the marginalization of literature”

   Synonymsmarginalization

   Broadersocial process

Other forms of marginalisation

plural

marginalisations·

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 marginalisation

What does marginalisation mean?

marginalisation means "the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society)".

How many syllables are in marginalisation?

marginalisation has 7 syllables: mar-gi-na-li-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for marginalisation?

Close synonyms include marginalization. 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 marginalisation a common word?

marginalisation 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.