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Definitions: Enervation |
EnervationNoun1. Lack of vitality; "an enervation of mind greater than any fatigue". 2. Serious weakening and loss of energy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "enervation" was first used: 1429. (references) |
Synonyms: EnervationSynonyms: debilitation (n), enfeeblement (n), exhaustion (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Weakness | Noun: weakness; Adjective: debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality; fragility, flaccidity; inactivity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Enervation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Enervation" 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 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "enervation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dobësim (breakdown, debilitation, decline, decrepitude, depravation, dilution, ebb, emaciation, emasculation, exhaustion, failure, flagging, wane, weakening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ضعف (attenuation, backwardness, crack, craze, debility, decrepitude, defect, delicacy, emaciation, failing, failure, fainting, feebleness, flabbiness, flightiness, frailness, frailty, grogginess, imitators, impairment, impotence, inadequacy, incapability, infirmity, lameness, languor, limp, limpness, shakiness, sickliness, sleeplessness, tenuousness, twice, uneasiness, weak spot, weaklings, weakness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отслабване (abatement, emasculation, getting thin, labefaction, losing weight, reducing, release, slimming, tabes, tabescence), отпуснатост (flabbiness, languor, laxity, lethargy, looseness, slouch), обезсилване, изтощение (depletion, distress, exhaustion, fag, fatigue, frazzle, lassitude, prostration, strain, weariness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vyèerpání (exhaustion, inanition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | affaiblissement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schwäche (brittleness, deficiency, dimness, dullness, failing, faintness, feebleness, foible, fondness, frailty, impairment, impotence, infirmity, lameness, languor, lightness, lowness, partiality, penchant, poorness, proclivity, slackness, slenderness, slightness, softness, unsoundness, weakness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκνευρισμόσ (irritation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elernyesztés (relaxation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | snervamento (attrition, yielding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 去勢 (castration), "弱 (effeminacy, weakness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょせい (big shot, bluff, castration, giant star, great man), にゅうじゃく (death of a priest, effeminacy, nirvana, spiritual liberty, weakness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuvioyrid (inactivity, insensibility, listlessness, senselessness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enervationay enfraquecimento (abatement, attenuation, decay, decline, deterioration, down grade, extenuation, fading, failing, fair, impale, labefaction, loss, run out), enervação, moleza (softness), debilitar (attenuate, crock, debilitate, depress, enfetter, etiology, impair, impoverish, languish, unbrace, undermine, unnerve, weaken), abatimento (abasement, abatement, chill, collapse, damp, dejection, depression, despondency, discount, doldrums, drawback, droop, dropping, heaviness, languor, leeway, mope, prostration, rebate, reduction, release, relief, remission, sag, sagging, settlement, slumping, small landslide, stress, subsidence, weekness). (various references) toropealã (apathy, dreaming, reverie, sleepiness, torpor), slãbire (abatement, atrophy, attenuation, decay, dilution, emasculation, fading, failing, failure, labefaction, looseness, maceration, slendering, stringency, weakening), moleşire (droop, effeminacy, emasculation, flagging). (various references) слабость (adynamia, asthenia, debilitation, debility, failing, faintness, feebleness, flabbiness, foible, fragility, infirmity, languor, limpness, looseness, washiness, weakness, wilt). (various references) slabljenje (attenuation, fading, labefaction). (various references) enervación. (various references) kraftlöshet (debility, droop, impotence, impotency, impuissance, inanition), försvagning (attenuation, debilitation, dilution, emasculation, fading, failure, impairment, latent image fading, weakening). (various references) zayıflatma (debilitation, emasculation, impairment), moral bozukluğu (deformity, despond, despondancy, dispiritedness, low ego), gevşeklik (flabbiness, laxity, laxness, limpness, looseness, slack, slackness, softness). (various references) слабість (ail, asthenia, debility, delicacy, flaccidity, foible, illness, languor, limpness, wasting, weakness), знесилення (cachexy, collapse, fag). (various references) sự l m yếu (enfeeblement, weakening), sự l m suy yếu (depauperation, impairment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | enervare. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "enervation": enervations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "enervation": denervation. (additional references) | |
Words containing "enervation": denervations. (additional references) | |
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"Enervation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: innervation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "enervation" (pronounced 'En`er*va"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, Acetification, Achromatization, Acidification, Acquisition, Actualization, Actuation, Acuation, Acuition, Acumination, Acupuncturation, Adaptation, Adaption, Addiction, Addition, Adduction, Ademption, Adeption, Adequation, Adfiliation, Adhibition, Adhortation, Adipoceration, Adjection, Adjudication, Adjunction, Adjuration, Adlegation, Adlocution, Admensuration, Administration, Admiration, Admixtion, Admonition, Admortization, Adnation, Adoption, Adoration, Adornation, Adosculation, Adrogation, Adsignification, Adulation, Adulteration, Adumbration, Adunation, Adustion, Advocation, Advolution, Aerification, AEstivation, Affectation, Affection, Affiliation, Affirmation, Afflation, Affliction, Afforestation, Affriction, Aggeneration, Aggeration, Agglomeration, Agglutination, Aggrandization, Aggravation, Aggregation, Agitation, Aglutition, Agnation, Agnition, Agnomination, Agricolation, Alation, Albication, Albification, Alcoholization, Alienation, Alimentation, Alkalization, Allectation, Allegation, Allegorization, Alleviation, Alligation, Alliteration, Allocation, Allocution, Alteration, Altercation, Alutation, Amalgamation, Ambulation, Ambustion, Amelioration, Americanization, Amolition, Amortization, Amotion, Amplexation, Ampliation, Amplification, Amputation, Anaesthetization, Analyzation, Anathematization, Anatomization, Angariation, Anglicization, Angulation, Angustation, Anhelation, Animalization, Animation, Annexation, Annihilation, Annomination, Annotation, Annulation, Annumeration, Annunciation, Anteposition, Antiattrition, Anticipation, Antifriction, Antilibration, Antiquation, Antivaccination, Antivivisection, Antrustion, Apertion, Apocopation, Apostemation, Apparition, Appellation, Appendication, Apperception, Appetition, Application, Apportion, Apposition, Apprecation, Appreciation, Approbation, Appropinquation, Appropriation, Approximation, Aprication, Aration, Arbitration, Arborization, Arctation, Arcuation, Arefaction, Arenation, Areolation, Argentation, Argumentation, Argutation, Arietation, Ariolation, Aromatization, Arrentation, Arreption, Arrestation, Arrogation, Arterialization, Articulation, Ascription, Asexualization, Aspection, Asperation, Asphyxiation, Aspiration, Asportation, Assassination, Assastion, Assecuration, Assecution, Assentation, assertion, Asseveration, Assibilation, Assignation, Assimulation, Association, Assuefaction, Assumption, Astipulation, Astriction, -ation, Atmolyzation, Atomization, Attemperation, Attention, Attenuation, Atterration, Attestation, Attrectation, Attribution, Attrition, Aucupation, Audition, Augmentation, Auguration, Aurigation, Auscultation, Authorization, Autofecundation, Auto-infection, Auto-inoculation, Auto-intoxication, Autosuggestion, Autotoxication, Averruncation, Aversation, Aviation, Avocation, Avolation, Backwardation, Ballotation, Balneation, Balsamation, Bannition, Baptization, Bastion, Beatification, Benediction, Benefaction, Bifurcation, Bilection, Biliation, Bilocation, Bipartition, Bisection, Bituminization, Blandation, Blatteration, Boation, Bolection, Bombilation, Bombination, Botheration, Brutalization, By-election, Cachinnation, Calamistration, Calcification, Calcination, Calcitration, Calculation, Calefaction, Caligation, Callisection, Calorification, Calumniation, Cameration, Canalization, Cancellation, Canceration, Canonization, Cantation, Cantillation, Cantion, Capillation, Capitation, Capitulation, Caprification, Caption, Carbonatation, Carbonization, Carbunculation, Carnation, Carnification, Caseation, Cassation, Castellation, Castigation, Castrametation, Castration, Catechisation, Catenation, Causation, Cauterization, Cavillation, Celebration, Cementation, Cenation, Centesimation, Centralization, Cephalization, Cerebration, Certification, Cessation, Characterization, Chatteration, Chitinization, Chlorination, Chondrification, Chrismation, Christianization, Chylifaction, Chylification, Chymification, Cibation, Cicatrization, Cicuration, Cinefaction, Cineration, Circination, Circuition, Circulation, Circumcursation, Circumdenudation, Circumduction, Circumflection, Circumgestation, Circumgyration, Circumlocution, Circumnavigation, Circumnutation, Circumposition, Circumrotation, Circumscription, Circumspection, Circumvallation, Circumvection, Circumvention, Circumvolation, Circumvolution, Citation, Citrination, Clamation, Clarification, Classification, Claudication, Coacervation, Coaction, Coadaptation, Coadunation, Coadunition, Coagmentation, Coagulation, Coalition, Coaptation, Coarctation, Coarticulation, Coaxation, Coction, Codification, Coeducation, Coemption. 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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: veneration. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-n-n-o-r-t-v" | |
-1 letter: innervate, nervation, vernation. | |
-2 letters: anointer, innovate, inventer, inventor, overneat, reanoint, reinvent, renovate, revenant, venation, venetian. | |
-3 letters: arenite, enation, enteron, entrain, environ, innerve, interne, intoner, naivete, neonate, nervate, nervine, novenae, overate, overeat, retinae, tenoner, ternion, trainee, veteran, vintner. | |
-4 letters: anoint, aroint, atoner, entera, entire, envier, eonian, inaner, innate, intern, intone, intron, invent, invert, naiver, narine, nation, native, natron, neaten, neater, nonart, norite, novena, orient, ornate, ratine, ration, ravine, rennet, renvoi, retain, retina, retine, revote, tanner, tavern, teniae, tenner, tinner, tonier, tonner, triene, vainer, vanner, veiner, venine, venire, venter, verite, vetoer, viator. | |
-5 letters: aerie, aiver, anent, anion, antre, arete, atone, avert, avion, eaten, eater, enate, enter, entia, envoi, event, evert, evite, inane, inert, inner, inter, intro, invar, irate, irone, naevi, naive, nerve, never, nieve, niter, niton, nitre, nitro, nonet, noria, noter, novae, oaten, oater, orate, ovate, overt, ovine, ranee, ratio, raven, ravin, reave, reive, renin, rente, retia, retie, revet, riant, riven, rivet, roven, tenia, tenon, tenor, terai, terne, tinea, toner, tonne, train, trave, treen, trine, trona, trone, trove, veena, venae, venin, vireo, vitae, voter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-n-n-o-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: denervation, enervations, noncreative, nonreactive, nonrelative, venerations. | |
+2 letters: denervations, nonassertive, nonoperative, nonrelatives, rejuvenation. | |
+3 letters: concentrative, convertiplane, environmental, intravenouses, nonderivative, nonvegetarian, normativeness, overattention, reinnervation, rejuvenations. | |
+4 letters: antigovernment, convertiplanes, noncooperative, nonderivatives, noninteractive, nonretroactive, nonvegetarians, outmaneuvering, overattentions, reinnervations. | |
+5 letters: environmentally, governmentalism, governmentalist, governmentalize, informativeness, inoperativeness, neoconservatism, neoconservative, nonconservative, noncreativities, normativenesses, overentertained, overopinionated, overornamenting, reinvestigation, ultraconvenient, undemonstrative, voluntarinesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 65 72 76 61 74 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. . .-. ...- .- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01100101 01110010 01110110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n e r v a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0065 0072 0076 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39807184886786758180 |
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