aggressiveness

Other forms of aggressiveness

plural

aggressivenesses·

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 aggressiveness

What does aggressiveness mean?

aggressiveness means "the quality of being bold and enterprising". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aggressiveness?

aggressiveness has 4 syllables: ag-gres-sive-ness. The stress falls on "gres". In IPA it is /əˈɡɹɛsɪvnəs/.

What is another word for aggressiveness?

Close synonyms include aggression, belligerence, pugnacity. 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 aggressiveness a common word?

aggressiveness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.