self-punishment

1. 1.

   punishment inflicted on yourself

   Broaderpunishment

   Narrowerself-flagellation

Questions about self-punishment

What does self-punishment mean?

self-punishment means "punishment inflicted on yourself".

How many syllables are in self-punishment?

self-punishment has 4 syllables and divides as self--pu-nish-ment under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is self-punishment a common word?

self-punishment 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.