transgression
nounHow many syllables in transgression?
There are 3 syllables in the word transgression.How to pronounce transgression:
Definition of transgression:
- transgression (noun):
- a breaking of a promise, obligation, etc.
- an act, process, or instance of transgressing such as
- the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle.
Synonyms for transgression:
abomination
actus reus
breach
contravention
crime
criminal offence
criminal offense
debt
depravity
encroachment
error
evil
evildoing
fault
felony
immorality
infraction
infringement
iniquity
inside job
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law-breaking
lawbreaking
malefaction
misbehaviour
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Antonyms for transgression:
behavior
behaviour
cheer
delight
equitableness
equity
fairness
good
good behavior
good behaviour
good deed
good manners
goodness
happiness
impartiality
joy
justice
kindness
noncrime
obedience
perfection
piety
pleasantness
pleasantry
praise
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- plain-spoken
- squanderer
- shimmery
- ramify
- likewise
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- equator
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- abided
- quantify
- musketeer
- bonita
- abhorrence
- radiant
- heptathlon
- revolted
- avoidance
- audition
- woolgather
- rusticate
- choleric
- beatitude
- spacecraft
- respondent
- Genghis Khan
- Kanye
- Frigidaire
- expounded
- Canada
- unerring
- residue
- morphemic
- lampara
- profaner
- gorgeously
- fellowship
- eyelash
- allusion
- whenever
- disinclined
- nectarine
- abampere
- psalterion
- opera
- botany
- rollover
- compactly
- theorem
- succeeded
- … more
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