abrasiveness

Questions about abrasiveness

What does abrasiveness mean?

abrasiveness means "the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in abrasiveness?

abrasiveness has 5 syllables: a-bra-si-ve-ness. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for abrasiveness?

Close synonyms include harshness, scratchiness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abrasiveness a common word?

abrasiveness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.