evocation

evocation

See also: évocation

English

Etymology

From Middle French évocation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

evocation (countable and uncountable, plural evocations)

1. The act of calling out or forth, or evoking.
   • 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 10:

     a stunningly atmospheric evocation of urban ennui

Related terms

• evoke
• invocation

Translations

act of calling out

Finnish: herättäminen (fi), kutsuminen (fi), mielleyhtymä (fi) French: évocation (fr) f German: Beschwörung (de) f Greek: κλήση (el) f (klísi) Italian: evocazione (it) f Portuguese: evocação f Spanish: evocación (es) f Swedish: frammanande (sv) n, framkallande (sv) n, frambesvärjande (sv) n