culture shock
nounHow many syllables in culture shock?
There are 3 syllables in the word culture shock.How to pronounce culture shock:
Definition of culture shock:
- culture shock (noun):
- a sense of confusion and uncertainty sometimes with feelings of anxiety that may affect people exposed to an alien culture or environment without adequate preparation
Antonyms for culture shock:
adaptation
cultural assimilation
re-entry shock
reverse culture shock
Here are some other common 3-syllable words.
- believing
- queueing
- nonexistent
- impressive
- decency
- Adeline
- puberty
- indecent
- foreigners
- doctoral
- shopkeeper
- persuade
- George
- alabout
- acknowledged
- endangered
- thankfully
- grudgingly
- disrupture
- Diane
- thirty-eight
- teenager
- Tatiana
- illusive
- illumined
- festering
- undoubtful
- roscoelite
- innocent
- Cameroon
- Aryan
- artisan
- aerial
- Gabrielle
- distressing
- Gaetano
- Lithany
- titration
- specimen
- Dalmatian
- catalog
- retirement's
- anapest
- fretfully
- Arian
- reteaching
- querulous
- uglier
- tobacco
- querida
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Syllable Fun Fact
Ambisyllabicity occurs when a consonant at the boundary of two syllables belongs to both, as in the word 'happen'.
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