chumminess

Questions about chumminess

What does chumminess mean?

chumminess means "the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability".

How many syllables are in chumminess?

chumminess has 3 syllables and divides as chum-mi-ness 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 chumminess?

Close synonyms include camaraderie, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship. 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 chumminess a common word?

chumminess 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.