odium

Other forms of odium

plural

odiums·

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 odium

What does odium mean?

odium means "state of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in odium?

odium has 3 syllables: o-di-um. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for odium?

Close synonyms include abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, loathing. 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 odium a common word?

odium 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.