predestination

Other forms of predestination

plural

predestinations·

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 predestination

What does predestination mean?

predestination means "previous determination as if by destiny or fate". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in predestination?

predestination has 5 syllables: pre-des-ti-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ˌpɹiˌdɛstəˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for predestination?

Close synonyms include foreordination, preordination, predetermination. 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 predestination a common word?

predestination 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 predestination?

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