pacification

Other forms of pacification

plural

pacifications·

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 pacification

What does pacification mean?

pacification means "the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pacification?

pacification has 5 syllables: pac-i-fi-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌpæsəfəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for pacification?

Close synonyms include mollification, peace, peace treaty, counterinsurgency. 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 pacification a common word?

pacification 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 pacification?

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