tropism

Other forms of tropism

plural

tropisms·

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 tropism

What does tropism mean?

tropism means "an involuntary orienting response; positive or negative reaction to a stimulus source".

How many syllables are in tropism?

tropism has 2 syllables and divides as tro-pism under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is tropism a common word?

tropism 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.