bigness

Other forms of bigness

plural

bignesses·

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 bigness

What does bigness mean?

bigness means "the property of having a relatively great size".

How many syllables are in bigness?

bigness has 2 syllables: big-ness. The stress falls on "big". In IPA it is /ˈbɪɡnəs/.

What is another word for bigness?

Close synonyms include largeness. 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.

What is the opposite of bigness?

The recorded antonyms are littleness.

Is bigness a common word?

bigness 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.