suasion

Other forms of suasion

plural

suasions·

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 suasion

What does suasion mean?

suasion means "the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action".

How many syllables are in suasion?

suasion has 2 syllables: sua-sion. The stress falls on "sua". In IPA it is /ˈsweɪʒən/.

What is another word for suasion?

Close synonyms include persuasion. 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 suasion a common word?

suasion 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.

What rhymes with suasion?

1 word rhymes with suasion. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.