455 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɪnˌɪʃɪˈe͡ɪʃən], [ ɪnˌɪʃɪˈe‍ɪʃən], [ ɪ_n_ˌɪ_ʃ_ɪ__ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]

Similar words for initiation:

• admission (noun)
• baptism (noun)
• baptism of fire (noun)
• beginning (noun)
• briefing (noun)
• commencement (noun)
• conception (noun)
• debut (noun)
• entrance (noun)
• entry (noun)
• foundation (noun)
• founding (noun)
• inauguration (noun)
• inception (noun)
• induction (noun)
• initiation (noun)
• introduction (noun)
• intromission (noun)
• origin (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• preliminary (noun)
• rite (noun)
• rite of passage (noun)
• start (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for initiation

Synonyms for Initiation:

• n.

  •
  • arrival,
  • starting point,
  • onset,
  • appearance.
  •
  • dedication,
  • indoctrination,
  • ceremonial,
  • graduation,
  • investment.
  •
  • mentoring,
  • pedagogy,
  • coaching,
  • orientation,
  • launch,
  • tuition,
  • training,
  • education,
  • exposure,
  • teaching.
  •
  • accept.
  • admission (noun)
  • reception,
  • acceptance,
  • door,
  • welcome,
  • ingress,
  • recognition,
  • confirmation,
  • designation,
  • admittance,
  • entree,
  • access.
  • baptism (noun)
  • baptism.
  • baptism of fire (noun)
  • baptism-fire,
  • baptism fire,
  • hazings,
  • test courage,
  • trial by fires,
  • rude introductions.
  • beginning (noun)
  • outset,
  • root,
  • dawning,
  • roots,
  • square one,
  • birth,
  • infancy,
  • preface,
  • dawn,
  • rise,
  • rudiment,
  • origination,
  • blastoff,
  • start,
  • source,
  • top,
  • genesis,
  • basis,
  • opening,
  • spring,
  • threshold,
  • blastoffs,
  • opener,
  • takeoff,
  • prelude,
  • creation,
  • openers,
  • presentation,
  • alpha,
  • inception,
  • day one,
  • point of departure.
  • briefing (noun)
  • background meeting,
  • preamble,
  • conference,
  • meeting,
  • information,
  • directions,
  • rundown,
  • discussion,
  • guidance,
  • priming.
  • commencement (noun)
  • celebration,
  • countdown,
  • bow,
  • convocation,
  • services.
  • conception (noun)
  • fertilization,
  • invention,
  • formation.
  • debut (noun)
  • incoming,
  • first steps,
  • first step,
  • incomings,
  • coming out,
  • coming out party,
  • Graduating.
  • entrance (noun)
  • enlistment,
  • approach,
  • import,
  • importation,
  • trespass,
  • ingoing,
  • progress,
  • invasion,
  • immigration,
  • adit,
  • importations,
  • penetration,
  • accession,
  • passage.
  • entry (noun)
  • entering,
  • coming in.
  • foundation (noun)
  • foundation.
  • founding (noun)
  • founding.
  • inauguration (noun)
  • institution,
  • setting up.
  • inception (noun)
  • well spring,
  • well-springs,
  • well springs.
  • induction (noun)
  • induction.
  • initiation (noun)
  • enrollment,
  • knowledgeability,
  • instauration,
  • innovation,
  • trigger,
  • Preliminaries,
  • knowledgeableness,
  • installation.
  • introduction (noun)
  • lead-in,
  • Prolegomenon,
  • intro,
  • opening remarks,
  • first taste,
  • basic text,
  • intros,
  • interpolation,
  • basic principle,
  • basic principles,
  • first acquaintance,
  • Exordiums,
  • exordium,
  • hornbooks,
  • Exordia,
  • Hornbook,
  • interpolations.
  • intromission (noun)
  • intromission.
  • origin (noun)
  • embarkations,
  • out breaks,
  • blast offs,
  • out break,
  • out-breaks,
  • out-break,
  • git goes.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • launchings,
  • embarkation,
  • baptism of fire,
  • entrance,
  • setting out,
  • launching,
  • nativities,
  • Well-spring,
  • initiatory rite,
  • nativity,
  • early stage,
  • free passage,
  • instructions,
  • Hazing,
  • Proem,
  • way,
  • start-off,
  • update,
  • forgings,
  • introduction,
  • curtain-raisers,
  • entry,
  • Germinations,
  • rude introduction,
  • beginning,
  • origins,
  • tee off,
  • conception,
  • insemination,
  • flying start,
  • trial by fire,
  • certification,
  • early stages,
  • briefing,
  • in formation,
  • preliminary,
  • initiation rite,
  • circumcision,
  • test of courage,
  • admission,
  • rite de passage,
  • first round,
  • running start,
  • curtain-raiser,
  • inauguration,
  • germination,
  • Circumcisions,
  • commencement,
  • Ingression,
  • start off,
  • git go,
  • initiation,
  • rite of passage,
  • debut,
  • instruction,
  • Certifications,
  • jump off,
  • prelims,
  • Introgression,
  • origin,
  • impregnation,
  • jump-off,
  • permission,
  • inseminations,
  • authorship.
  • preliminary (noun)
  • first rounds.
  • rite (noun)
  • vesper,
  • sacrifice,
  • ceremony,
  • matrimony,
  • nones,
  • Siddur,
  • wedlock,
  • missal,
  • evensong,
  • marriage,
  • sacrament,
  • service,
  • mass,
  • transubstantiation,
  • revival,
  • remembrance,
  • last rites,
  • christening,
  • holiday,
  • liturgy,
  • eucharist,
  • canon,
  • rite,
  • communion,
  • novena,
  • observance,
  • solemnization,
  • ritual.
  • rite of passage (noun)
  • initiatory rites,
  • rite-passage,
  • initiation rites,
  • rite passage,
  • rites de passage.
  • start (noun)
  • startoffs,
  • setting outs,
  • jump offs,
  • running starts,
  • jumpoffs,
  • startoff,
  • start-offs,
  • jump-offs,
  • jumpoff,
  • start offs.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • leadoff,
  • commemoration,
  • pomp,
  • swearing-in,
  • instatement,
  • march-past,
  • incipience,
  • incipiency,
  • inaugural,
  • solemnity,
  • communicator.
  •
  • kickoff,
  • pow-wow,
  • testimonial,
  • investiture.
  •
  • salute.
  •
  • review.
  •
  • parade.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • plainly,
  • world,
  • base,
  • primarily,
  • colonization,
  • activation,
  • incitement,
  • create,
  • facility,
  • exercise,
  • switch on,
  • induce,
  • fomentation,
  • foundation garment,
  • fall to,
  • motive,
  • elementary education,
  • principally,
  • originate,
  • cosmos,
  • universe,
  • curriculum,
  • germinate,
  • selection,
  • excogitation,
  • let down,
  • bottom,
  • ordination,
  • fundament,
  • creative activity,
  • understructure,
  • lodgment,
  • anchorage,
  • elicitation,
  • acclimatization,
  • get cracking,
  • population,
  • enthronement,
  • gun trigger,
  • instalment,
  • Arising,
  • writing,
  • flotation,
  • formal,
  • emergence,
  • enter,
  • enthronization,
  • substructure,
  • mouth,
  • cause,
  • inductance,
  • office,
  • generate,
  • mooring,
  • course of study,
  • connect,
  • motivation,
  • incur,
  • assimilation,
  • reading,
  • and arithmetic,
  • generalisation,
  • grammar,
  • maiden speech,
  • conscription,
  • bar mitzvah,
  • consecration,
  • bring,
  • rudiments,
  • instigation,
  • provocation,
  • fount,
  • inaugural address,
  • incipiently,
  • installment,
  • commence,
  • clearly,
  • primer,
  • baccalaureate service,
  • asylum,
  • foot,
  • kick off,
  • inducement,
  • course,
  • generalization,
  • formality,
  • initially,
  • fundamentally,
  • settling,
  • firstly,
  • Familiarization,
  • aperture,
  • embark on,
  • inductive reasoning,
  • activate,
  • get,
  • Peopling,
  • incentive,
  • mental hospital,
  • radically,
  • strike up,
  • plantation,
  • get off,
  • embarkment,
  • justification,
  • mental institution,
  • installing,
  • mental home,
  • floating,
  • design,
  • evocation,
  • shoot forth,
  • task,
  • reason,
  • artlessly,
  • Immission,
  • Exercises,
  • let,
  • irritate,
  • set in motion,
  • take off,
  • cornerstone,
  • unveiling,
  • engender,
  • function,
  • basically,
  • gap,
  • Abecedary,
  • originally,
  • develop,
  • first appearance,
  • formulation,
  • placement,
  • attempt,
  • easily,
  • establishment,
  • elements,
  • macrocosm,
  • coronation,
  • bat mitzvah,
  • beget,
  • insertion,
  • psychiatric hospital,
  • usher in,
  • grounding,
  • propaedeutic,
  • proceed,
  • unproblematically,
  • essentially,
  • insane asylum,
  • grounds,
  • groundwork,
  • stimulus,
  • settlement,
  • rudimentarily,
  • primitively,
  • enrolment,
  • generation,
  • performance,
  • preparation,
  • existence,
  • straightforwardly,
  • mummery,
  • fountain,
  • fixation,
  • initiate,
  • abecedarium,
  • basally,
  • depart,
  • starting,
  • uncomplicatedly,
  • get going,
  • religious ceremony,
  • set in,
  • instigate,
  • crowning.

Paraphrases for Initiation:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    commencement, induction, launch, Initiating, initiates, launches.
  • Noun, plural
    launch, launches, launchings.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    commencement, induction, initiate, launch, Initiating.

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    start, starts.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    start.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    inauguration, instigation.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    initiate, introduction, trades, members, remarks.
  • Noun, plural
    releases, themes, launchers.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    activation, creation, elaboration, elicitation, emergence, eruption, inclusion, initial, initialization, initiator, installation, introduction, investigation, literacy, outset, realization, trigger, Familiarization, triggers, mis, roll-out, setting-up, opening-up, operationalisation.
  • Verb, past participle
    oriented.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    occurs, mentions, triggers.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    launching, opening, openness, orientation.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    launching, opening, openness, orientation.