superintendence

Questions about superintendence

What does superintendence mean?

superintendence means "management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group".

How many syllables are in superintendence?

superintendence has 5 syllables: su-pe-rin-ten-dence. The stress falls on "rin".

What is another word for superintendence?

Close synonyms include supervision, supervising, oversight. 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 superintendence a common word?

superintendence 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.