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Definition: Illation |
IllationNoun1. The reasoning involved in making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "illation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
Synonym: IllationSynonym: inference (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Judgment | Noun: result, conclusion, upshot; deduction, inference, ergotism; illation; corollary, porism; moral. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Illation |
| English words defined with "illation": illative, inferential. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Illation" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (illation). |
| Language | Translations for "illation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | konkluzion (conclusion, corollary, eduction, finding, inference, opinion, peroration, resume, rider). (various references) | |
Arabic | إستنتاج (conclusion, deduction, derivation, inference, reasoning). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | заключение (conclusion, decision, finale, inference, peroration, upshot), извод (conclusion, consequence, consequent, corollary, implication, inference, outlet, rider, terminal), дедукция (deduction, eduction). (various references) | |
Czech | odvození (inference). (various references) | |
French | illation. (various references) | |
Hungarian | következtetés (come off, conclusion, consequence, deduction, derivation, discursiveness, eduction, induction, inference, syllogism). (various references) | |
Italian | illazione (inference). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illationay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inferncia (inference), ilao. (various references) | |
Russian | вывод (conclusion, corollary, deduction, derivation, development, eduction, inference, lead-out, recapitulation, rider). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaključivanje (inference), zaključak (conclusion, finding, inference). (various references) | |
Spanish | ilación. (various references) | |
Swedish | slutsats (conclusion, consequence, implication, inference). (various references) | |
Turkish | sonuç çıkarma (deduction, inference), anlam çıkarma, çıkarılan sonuç. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | висновок (amen, conclusion, consequence, corollary, deduction, educt, eduction, inference, peroration). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "illation": illations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "illation": cantillation, defibrillation, distillation, fibrillation, instillation, oscillation, redistillation, scintillation, titillation, vacillation. (additional references) | |
Words containing "illation": cantillations, defibrillations, distillations, fibrillations, instillations, oscillational, oscillations, redistillations, scintillations, titillations, vacillations. (additional references) | |
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"Illation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Allatson, Alletio, iliction, illeration, Rillaton, ulation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "illation" (pronounced 'Il*la"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) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-l-l-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: latino, lintol, talion. | |
-3 letters: aioli, allot, aloin, atoll, ilial, litai, llano, notal, talon, tolan, tonal. | |
-4 letters: alit, alto, anil, anti, ilia, inia, inti, into, iota, lain, lati, lilt, lino, lint, lion, loan, loin, lota, loti, nail, naoi, nill, noil, nota, olla, tail, tain, tali, tall, till, toil, tola, toll. | |
-5 letters: ail, ain, ait, all. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-l-l-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: illations. | |
+2 letters: palliation, volitional. | |
+3 letters: alleviation, antilogical, colligating, colligation, collimating, collimation, colonialist, dictionally, fictionally, illuminator, illuviation, inviolately, legislation, librational, multinomial, oscillating, oscillation, palliations, pollinating, pollination, titillation, unpolitical, vacillation. | |
+4 letters: additionally, aldolization, alleviations, alliteration, anticolonial, antiglobulin, antisocially, cantillation, cationically, colligations, collimations, collinearity, colonialists, diatonically, dilatational, distillation, fibrillation, frictionally, ideationally, illumination, illuminators, illustration, illuviations, inflectional, inhalational, installation, instillation, involutional, irrationally, isotonically, legalization, legislations, levitational, limitational, localization, longitudinal, multinomials, nonpolitical, oscillations, outcavilling, outrivalling, pollinations, pontifically, positionally, scintillator, tinctorially, titillations, unifoliolate, vacillations, volatilising, volatilizing. | |
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