-ion
a suffix, appearing in words of latin origin, denoting action or condition, used in latin and in english to form nouns from stems of latin adjectives (communion; union), verbs (legion; opinion), and especially past participles (allusion; creation; fusion; notion; torsion).
-ion
suffix
indicating an action, process, or state creation, objection compare -ation, -tion
word origin
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chiefly british variant of -ization.
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