substitution

1. 1.

   an event in which one thing is substituted for another

   “the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood”

   Synonymspermutationtranspositionreplacementswitch

   Broadervariation
2. 2.

   the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: "he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help"

   Synonymsexchangecommutation

   Broaderchange

   Narrowerreplacementsubrogationweaning

Other forms of substitution

plural

substitutions·

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 substitution

What does substitution mean?

substitution means "an event in which one thing is substituted for another". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in substitution?

substitution has 4 syllables: sub-sti-tu-tion. The stress falls on "tu". In IPA it is /ˌsʌbstɪˈtuʃən/.

What is another word for substitution?

Close synonyms include permutation, transposition, replacement, switch, exchange. 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 substitution a common word?

substitution 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 substitution?

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