mediation

Other forms of mediation

plural

mediations·

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 mediation

What does mediation mean?

mediation means "a negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mediation?

mediation has 4 syllables: me-di-a-tion. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ˌmidiˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for mediation?

Close synonyms include intermediation. 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 mediation a common word?

mediation 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 mediation?

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