oscitancy

Other forms of oscitancy

plural

oscitancies·

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 oscitancy

What does oscitancy mean?

oscitancy means "drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oscitancy?

oscitancy has 4 syllables: o-sci-tan-cy. The stress falls on "sci".

What is another word for oscitancy?

Close synonyms include oscitance, yawn, yawning, oscitance. 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 oscitancy a common word?

oscitancy 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.