awfulness

Questions about awfulness

What does awfulness mean?

awfulness means "a quality of extreme unpleasantness".

How many syllables are in awfulness?

awfulness has 3 syllables: aw-ful-ness. The stress falls on "aw". In IPA it is /ˈɔfəlnəs/.

What is another word for awfulness?

Close synonyms include dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness. 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 awfulness a common word?

awfulness 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.