alertness

Other forms of alertness

plural

alertnesses·

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 alertness

What does alertness mean?

alertness means "the process of paying close and continuous attention". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alertness?

alertness has 3 syllables: a-lert-ness. The stress falls on "lert". In IPA it is /əˈlɝtnəs/.

What is another word for alertness?

Close synonyms include watchfulness, wakefulness, vigilance, alerting, sharp-sightedness. 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 alertness a common word?

alertness 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.