postulation

Other forms of postulation

plural

postulations·

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 postulation

What does postulation mean?

postulation means "(logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in postulation?

postulation has 5 syllables: po-stu-la-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for postulation?

Close synonyms include predication, request, petition. 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 postulation a common word?

postulation 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.