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nugations

nugations is the plural of nugation.

Meaning of nugation

Noun

nugation (countable and uncountable, plural nugations)

  1. (obsolete, rare) The act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial or inconsequential.)
    • As for the received opinion, that putrefaction is caused, either by cold, or peregrine and preternatural heat, it is but nugation: for cold in things inanimate, is the greatest enemy that is to putrefaction […]1826, Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, page 13

Questions about nugations

What is nugations the plural of?
Nugations is the plural of nugation.

Words near nugations in the dictionary

  1. Nug Nug
  2. nugacious
  3. nugacity
  4. Nugara
  5. nugation
  6. nugations
  7. nugatorily
  8. nugatoriness
  9. nugatory
  10. Nugent
  11. Nugents

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nugations (page history and authors); nugation (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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