Imposition

Quick meaning: Imposition is a noun meaning The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

Meaning

The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

More Meanings

1. An unwelcome burden, presence, or obligation.
2. That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
3. A trick or deception put or laid on others.
4. (printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
5. (religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
6. (UK, school or university slang) A task imposed on a student as punishment.

Example Sentences

He expunges his own anguish at his diagnosis with HIV and the impositions that have claimed his freedom.

They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.

Word Forms

• impositions

Synonyms for imposition

Depending on context, synonyms include imposure, infliction, obtrusion, charge, enjoinder, injunction.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include infliction, coercion, impose, enforcement, coercive, diktat.

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