orogeny

1. 1.

   the process of mountain formation (especially by the upward displacement of the earth's crust)

   Broadergeological process

Other forms of orogeny

plural

orogenies·

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 orogeny

What does orogeny mean?

orogeny means "the process of mountain formation (especially by the upward displacement of the earth's crust)".

How many syllables are in orogeny?

orogeny has 4 syllables: o-ro-ge-ny. The stress falls on "ro".

Is orogeny a common word?

orogeny 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.