brownness

Other forms of brownness

plural

brownnesses·

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 brownness

What does brownness mean?

brownness means "an orange of low brightness and saturation".

How many syllables are in brownness?

brownness has 2 syllables: brown-ness. The stress falls on "brown".

What is another word for brownness?

Close synonyms include brown. 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 brownness a common word?

brownness 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.