secession

Other forms of secession

plural

secessions·

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 secession

What does secession mean?

secession means "an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in secession?

secession has 3 syllables: se-ces-sion. The stress falls on "ces". In IPA it is /sɪˈsɛʃən/.

What is another word for secession?

Close synonyms include sezession, withdrawal. 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 secession a common word?

secession 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 secession?

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