carefulness

Other forms of carefulness

plural

carefulnesses·

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 carefulness

What does carefulness mean?

carefulness means "the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carefulness?

carefulness has 3 syllables: caref-ul-ness. The stress falls on "caref". In IPA it is /ˈkɛɹfəlˌnɛs/.

What is another word for carefulness?

Close synonyms include caution, cautiousness. 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 carefulness?

The recorded antonyms are carelessness.

Is carefulness a common word?

carefulness 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.

What rhymes with carefulness?

7 words rhyme with carefulness. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.