cleverness

Other forms of cleverness

plural

clevernesses·

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 cleverness

What does cleverness mean?

cleverness means "the power of creative imagination". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cleverness?

cleverness has 3 syllables: clev-er-ness. The stress falls on "clev". In IPA it is /ˈklɛvɚnəs/.

What is another word for cleverness?

Close synonyms include inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, brightness, smartness. 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 cleverness a common word?

cleverness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.