ossification

1. 1.

   the developmental process of bone formation

   Broaderorganic process
2. 2.

   the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material

   Broadercalcification
3. 3.

   the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior

   Broaderhuman process
4. 4.

   hardened conventionality

   Synonymsconformity

   Broaderconventionality

Other forms of ossification

plural

ossifications·

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 ossification

What does ossification mean?

ossification means "the developmental process of bone formation". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ossification?

ossification has 5 syllables: os-si-fi-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌɑsəfəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for ossification?

Close synonyms include conformity. 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 ossification a common word?

ossification 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.

What rhymes with ossification?

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