evocation
evocation noun: the act of calling out or forth, or evoking.
Noun
evocation (countable and uncountable, plural evocations)
- The act of calling out or forth, or evoking.
- Schepisi makes it clear that the outlandish rules, the strict self-discipline, the body hatred, and erotophobia is destructive; it is doing no one any good. But since he is also presenting a (somewhat) loving evocation of his own past, this measure gets soft peddled.1982 February 13, Michael Bronski, “Boys from Catholic School”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 12
- a stunningly atmospheric evocation of urban ennui2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 10
evocation meaning in Hindi and Urdu
evocation in Hindi
- act of calling out
- आह्वान āhvān
evocation in Urdu
- طلبی
Forms of evocation
| plural | evocations |
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Origin of evocation
From Middle French évocation.
Words formed from evocation
Words that rhyme with evocation
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about evocation
- What does evocation mean?
- Evocation means the act of calling out or forth, or evoking.
- What is evocation in Hindi?
- Evocation in Hindi is आह्वान (āhvān). See Evocation meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is evocation?
- Evocation is a noun.
- What is the plural of evocation?
- The plural of evocation is evocations.
Words near evocation in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: evocation (page history and authors); evocation (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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