subsidence

Other forms of subsidence

plural

subsidences·

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 subsidence

What does subsidence mean?

subsidence means "an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in subsidence?

subsidence has 3 syllables: sub-si-dence. The stress falls on "si". In IPA it is /səbˈsaɪdəns/.

What is another word for subsidence?

Close synonyms include remission, remittal, settling, subsiding, cave in. 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 subsidence a common word?

subsidence 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.