sedation

1. 1.

   a state of reduced excitement or anxiety that is induced by the administrative of a sedative agent

   Broaderphysical condition
2. 2.

   the administration of a sedative agent or drug

   Synonymsdrugging

   Broaderadministration

Other forms of sedation

plural

sedations·

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 sedation

What does sedation mean?

sedation means "a state of reduced excitement or anxiety that is induced by the administrative of a sedative agent". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sedation?

sedation has 3 syllables: se-da-tion. The stress falls on "da". In IPA it is /səˈdeɪʃən/.

What is another word for sedation?

Close synonyms include drugging. 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 sedation a common word?

sedation 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 sedation?

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