quickening

Other forms of quickening

plural

quickenings·

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 quickening

What does quickening mean?

quickening means "the process of showing signs of life". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quickening?

quickening has 3 syllables: quic-ke-ning. The stress falls on "quic". In IPA it is /ˈkwɪkənɪŋ/.

What is another word for quickening?

Close synonyms include acceleration, speedup. 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 quickening a common word?

quickening 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.