beingness

Other forms of beingness

plural

beingnesses·

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 beingness

What does beingness mean?

beingness means "the state or fact of existing".

How many syllables are in beingness?

beingness has 2 syllables: being-ness. The stress falls on "being".

What is another word for beingness?

Close synonyms include being, existence, face of the earth. 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 beingness a common word?

beingness 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.