airiness

Other forms of airiness

plural

airinesses·

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 airiness

What does airiness mean?

airiness means "the property of something spacious and abounding in fresh air". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in airiness?

airiness has 3 syllables: ai-ri-ness. The stress falls on "ai".

What is another word for airiness?

Close synonyms include buoyancy, delicacy. 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 airiness a common word?

airiness 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.