vindication

Other forms of vindication

plural

vindications·

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 vindication

What does vindication mean?

vindication means "the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vindication?

vindication has 4 syllables: vin-di-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /vɪndəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for vindication?

Close synonyms include exoneration, defense, defence. 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 vindication a common word?

vindication 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 vindication?

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