blandness

Other forms of blandness

plural

blandnesses·

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 blandness

What does blandness mean?

blandness means "the trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blandness?

blandness has 2 syllables: bland-ness. The stress falls on "bland". In IPA it is /ˈblændnəs/.

What is another word for blandness?

Close synonyms include insipidity, insipidness, suavity, suaveness, smoothness. 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 blandness a common word?

blandness 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.