transubstantiation

1. 1.

   the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist

   Broadertheological doctrine
2. 2.

   an act that changes the form or character or substance of something

   Synonymstransmutation

   Broaderconversion

Other forms of transubstantiation

plural

transubstantiations·

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 transubstantiation

What does transubstantiation mean?

transubstantiation means "the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in transubstantiation?

transubstantiation has 7 syllables: tran-sub-stan-ti-a-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for transubstantiation?

Close synonyms include transmutation. 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 transubstantiation a common word?

transubstantiation 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.