cremation
noun/kɹɪˈmeɪʃən/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin cremātiō, cremātiōnis; equivalent to cremate + -ion.
1
A burning; especially the act or practice of cremating the dead, burning a corpse.
- Cremation removes a significant amount of "closure" from the process of death.
- Synonyms
- incineration
- Derived terms
- aquamation, autocremation, biocremation, cremationism, cremationist, cremation oven, direct cremation, precremation, water cremation
- Related terms
- cremate, cremating, crematorium, crematory