affectionateness

Other forms of affectionateness

plural

affectionatenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about affectionateness

What does affectionateness mean?

affectionateness means "a positive feeling of liking". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in affectionateness?

affectionateness has 7 syllables: af-fec-ti-o-na-te-ness. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for affectionateness?

Close synonyms include affection, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness. 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 affectionateness a common word?

affectionateness 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.