bawdiness

Questions about bawdiness

What does bawdiness mean?

bawdiness means "the trait of behaving in an obscene manner".

How many syllables are in bawdiness?

bawdiness has 3 syllables: baw-di-ness. The stress falls on "baw".

What is another word for bawdiness?

Close synonyms include obscenity, lewdness, salaciousness, salacity. 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 bawdiness a common word?

bawdiness 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.