cockiness

Questions about cockiness

What does cockiness mean?

cockiness means "offensive boldness and assertiveness".

How many syllables are in cockiness?

cockiness has 3 syllables: coc-ki-ness. The stress falls on "coc". In IPA it is /ˈkɑkinəs/.

What is another word for cockiness?

Close synonyms include bumptiousness, pushiness, forwardness. 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 cockiness a common word?

cockiness 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.