clumsiness

Other forms of clumsiness

plural

clumsinesses·

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 clumsiness

What does clumsiness mean?

clumsiness means "unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clumsiness?

clumsiness has 3 syllables: clum-si-ness. The stress falls on "clum". In IPA it is /ˈklʌmzinəs/.

What is another word for clumsiness?

Close synonyms include awkwardness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness. 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 clumsiness a common word?

clumsiness 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.