blamelessness

Questions about blamelessness

What does blamelessness mean?

blamelessness means "a state of innocence".

How many syllables are in blamelessness?

blamelessness has 4 syllables and divides as bla-me-les-sness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for blamelessness?

Close synonyms include inculpability, inculpableness, guiltlessness. 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 blamelessness a common word?

blamelessness 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.