Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

amassment

/əˈmæsmənt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: amass-ment
IPA: /əˈmæsmənt/

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of amassing.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

That which is amassed; a large quantity (of something).

Countable

Example Sentences

"All her energy was devoted to the amassment of a vast fortune."
"1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, London: Thomas Heath, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 13, … no can know, whether He [God] created either more Atoms then were requisite to the amassment of this World, or more Worlds then this one:"
"[...] Curmudgeons among Books, are as discoverable as those among Bags; and [...] they may lose more Honour and Credit, than gain Wisdom or Happiness, by the fruitless Amassment and Imprisonment of either."
"Even more than the Russian Bolshevik the American democrat regards wealth with suspicion, and its too eager amassment with a bilious eye."
"Empiricism, magpie amassment of cultural detail, produces an ethnographic telephone book."
"Through the Internet, we have access to an unprecedented amassment of information."

Etymology

Probably from French amassement (“the act of amassing; the result of this action, objects that have been amassed or piled up”); equivalent to amass + -ment.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: amassement
Suffix: amass

Usage

Inflected Forms

amassments (plural)

Synonyms

accumulation collection

Questions

How do you pronounce amassment?: The recorded pronunciation is /əˈmæsmənt/.
What does amassment mean?: The act of amassing.
Where does amassment come from?: It is traced to French.

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