negation

Other forms of negation

plural

negations·

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 negation

What does negation mean?

negation means "a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in negation?

negation has 3 syllables: ne-ga-tion. The stress falls on "ga". In IPA it is /nəˈɡeɪʃən/.

Is negation a common word?

negation 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 negation?

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