barrenness

Other forms of barrenness

plural

barrennesses·

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 barrenness

What does barrenness mean?

barrenness means "the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in barrenness?

barrenness has 3 syllables: bar-ren-ness. The stress falls on "bar".

What is another word for barrenness?

Close synonyms include fruitlessness, aridity. 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 barrenness a common word?

barrenness 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.