tearfulness

Questions about tearfulness

What is another word for tearfulness?

It depends which tearfulness you mean. In the sense “sadness expressed by weeping”, the synonyms are weepiness. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of tearfulness?

WordNet records no antonym for tearfulness. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for tearfulness come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of tearfulness

• Full entry for tearfulnessAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for tearfulnessWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.