Dissuasion

Definition: Dissuasion

Dissuasion

Noun

1. A communication that dissuades you.

2. Persuasion not to do something; the act of talking someone out of an intended course of action.

3. Deterrence by argument or reasoning or entreaty.

Date "dissuasion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Dissuasion \Dis*sua"sion\, noun. [Latin expression dissuasio: compare to the French expression dissuasion. See Dissuade.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Dissuasion

Synonyms by domain: campaign of dissuasion (social sciences), dissuasion campaign.

Antonym: persuasion (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Confutation	Correction; a; dissuasion.
Dissuasion	Noun: dissuasion, dehortation, expostulation, remonstrance; deprecation.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dissuasion

English words defined with "dissuasion": Dehortation ♦ expostulate. (references)

Specialty definitions using "dissuasion": reasonable. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Dissuasion" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (determent, deterrence, dissuasion).

Domain	Title
Books	Pacifisme et dissuasion : la contestation pacifiste et l'avenir de la sécurité de l'Europe (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Dissuasion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dissuasion" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "dissuasion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhbindje, kthim i mendjes. (various references)

Arabic		‏نصح بالعدول (dissuade), ‏ثني عن. (various references)

Bulgarian		разубеждаване (deterrence, expostulation), раздумване. (various references)

Czech		zrazování (discouragement). (various references)

French		dissuasion. (various references)

German		abraten (advise against, discouragement, dissuade, dissuade from). (various references)

Greek		μεταπείθω (dissuade), αποτρέπω (avert, deter, disincline, dissuade, foil, prevent, scotch 1, ward off). (various references)

Hungarian		lebeszélés (telling). (various references)

Italian		dissuadere (deter, deterrence, discourage, dissuade, warn). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		諌止 , 諫止 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		か�"し (a watch, article, being on the lookout, Chinese astrology, Chinese poetry, forceps, guarding, inspection, looking around or about, observation, prepared to die in an effort to dissuade one's lord, ring finger, sexagenary cycle, surveillance). (various references)

Manx		coyrle noi (counter-advice), anchoyrle. (various references)

Pig Latin		issuasionday

Portuguese		dissuadir (deter, deterge, discouragement, put off). (various references)

Romanian		acţiunea de a convinge pe cineva. (various references)

Russian		разубеждение, отговаривание (discouragement). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		odgovaranje (discouragement, respond, responsiveness). (various references)

Spanish		disuasión (deterrence, discouragement). (various references)

Swedish		avstyrkande, avrådan. (various references)

Turkish		vazgeçirme, kandırma (bait, deception, inducement, inveiglement, put on, spoof), ikna (convincing, enticement, inducement, persuasion), caydırma (deterrence). (various references)

Ukrainian		відговорювання. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự khuyên ngăn, sự khuyên can (remonstrance), sự can ngăn, sự can gián. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dissuasion": dissuasions. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dissuasion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disseisin, disussion. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-n-o-s-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: sinusoids.
	-2 letters: sinusoid, suasions.
	-3 letters: indusia, sanious, soudans, suasion.
	-4 letters: adonis, audios, danios, iodins, sasins, soudan, sounds, unsaid.
	-5 letters: adios, audio, danio, donas, iodin, nidus, nisus, nodus, oasis, oidia, ossia, sadis, saids, sains, sands, sasin, sinus, sodas, sound, unais.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-i-i-n-o-s-s-s-u"
	+1 letter: dissuasions.
	+4 letters: custodianships, dissimulations, fastidiousness, subsidizations.
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