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OSCITATION

Definition: OSCITATION

OSCITATION

Noun

1. The act of yawning or gaping.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Oscitation \Os`ci*ta"tion\, noun. [Latin expression oscitatio: compare to the French expression oscitation.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: OSCITATION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inactivity

Dullness; Adjective: languor; segnity, segnitude; lentor; sluggishness; (slowness); procrastination; (delay); torpor, torpidity, torpescence; stupor; (insensibility); somnolence; drowsiness; Adjective: nodding; Verb: oscitation, oscitancy; pandiculation, hypnotism, lethargy; statuvolence heaviness, heavy eyelids.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: OSCITATION

Language Translations for "OSCITATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Turkish

  

esneme (bending, flection, flexion, gape, spring, stretch, yawn, yawning, yield), dikkatsizlik (carelessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inobservance, negligence, oversight, recklessness, want of care), ayakta uyuma (drowsiness). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

тупість (beetle, dullness, obtuseness, obtusity, opaqueness, oscitancy, torpor), неуважність (absence, absentmindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, carelessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, negligence, obliviousness, oscitancy, wool gathering), недбалість (backwardness, carelessness, laxity, looseness, neglect, negligence, nonchalance, offhandedness, oscitancy, preterition, pretermission, slapdash), байдужість (apathy, callousness, cold-bloodedness, coldness, indifference, insensibility, negligence, nonchalance, unconcern), позіхання (oscitancy, yawn). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự lơ đễnh (wool-gathering), sự cẩu thả (carelessness, casualness, neglect, neglectfulness, remissiness). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "OSCITATION"

Words rhyming with "OSCITATION" (pronounced 'Os`ci*ta"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: OSCITATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-n-o-o-s-t-t"

-1 letter: citations.

-2 letters: citation, coitions, isotonic, oscitant, ostinati, ostinato, stiction, tactions.

-3 letters: actions, atonics, cations, coition, cottons, octants, station, taction, titanic, titians.

-4 letters: actins, action, anisic, antics, atonic, attics, cantos, casini, casino, cation, coatis, contos, cotans, cottas, cotton, intact, ionics, isatin, nastic, nostoc, octans, octant, otitic, otitis, scotia, static, stotin, taints, tanist, tincts, titans, titian.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-n-o-o-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: cogitations.

 

+2 letters: anorthositic, coalitionist, constipation, solicitation.

 

+3 letters: coalitionists, cohabitations, constipations, continuations, customization, detoxications, domestication, excogitations, intoxications, notifications, pontificators, ratiocinators, solicitations, vocationalist.

 

+4 letters: associationist, autoinfections, cocultivations, coinvestigator, constitutional, contaminations, contradictions, contradictious, contraposition, contrapositive, cooperationist, customizations, decortications, domestications, emotionalistic, eroticizations, factorizations, fortifications, fractionations, indoctrinators, miscomputation, monotheistical, mortifications, nonantibiotics, pontifications, ratiocinations, sclerotization, sophistication, vocationalists.

 

+5 letters: anticolonialist, anticorruptions, associationists, categorizations, coinvestigators, colonizationist, concretizations, conglutinations, conservationist, constitutionals, contradictories, contrapositions, contrapositives, conventionalist, cooperationists, detoxifications, discontinuation, disintoxication, ethnohistorical, eutrophications, fictionizations, indoctrinations, introspectional, microtonalities, miscomputations, nonantagonistic, nonaristocratic, noncultivations, politicizations, postinoculation, postvaccination, procrastination, prognosticating, prognostication, prognosticative, sclerotizations, sophistications.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: OSCITATION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 53 43 49 54 41 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

---    ...    -.-.    ..    -    .-    -    ..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01010011 01000011 01001001 01010100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#83 &#67 &#73 &#84 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0053 0043 0049 0054 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

49533743543554434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams 		5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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