Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

argumentation

/ˌɑɹɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English

Syllables: ar-gu-men-ta-tion
IPA: /ˌɑɹɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/

16

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Inference based on reasoning from given propositions.

Uncountable

noun

An exchange of arguments

Uncountable

noun

The addition of arguments to a model; parameterization.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"His chain of argumentation is flawed."
"None of the traditional proposals suffers from the weaknesses characteristic of CAW's suggestions: what CAW has to offer are mere guesses, arrived at in a totally unsystematic way and totally unsupported by rational and reasonable argumentation."
"Their argumentation continued long into the night."
"An argumentation framework has an obvious representation as a directed graph where nodes are arguments and edges are drawn from attacking to attacked arguments."

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin argūmentor Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin argūmentātiōder. Middle English argumentacioun English argumentation Inherited from Middle English argumentacioun, from Anglo-Norman argumentacion, Middle French argumentation, or their etymon Latin argūmentātiō; by surface analysis, argument + -ation.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: argumentacioun, argumentacion, argumentation, argūmentātiō

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌɑɹɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/
British English: /ˌɑːɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

argumentations (plural)

Derived Forms

argumentational argumentationally counterargumentation

Synonyms

logical argument argument line of reasoning line debate

Rhymes With

information education situation population station association administration operation organization nation location application

Questions

How do you pronounce argumentation?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌɑɹɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/.
What does argumentation mean?: Inference based on reasoning from given propositions.
Where does argumentation come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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