stagnation

Other forms of stagnation

plural

stagnations·

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 stagnation

What does stagnation mean?

stagnation means "a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stagnation?

stagnation has 3 syllables: stag-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /stæɡˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for stagnation?

Close synonyms include stagnancy, doldrums, stagnancy. 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 stagnation a common word?

stagnation 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 stagnation?

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