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enmeshment

noun

enmeshment is a noun meaning “The state of being enmeshed; entanglement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-N-M-E-S-H-M-E-N-T, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of enmeshment is enmeshments.

What does enmeshment mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The state of being enmeshed; entanglement.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of enmeshment

  • enmeshments plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is enmeshment?

Enmeshment appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does enmeshment come from?

From enmesh + -ment.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).