comatoseness

Questions about comatoseness

What does comatoseness mean?

comatoseness means "a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury".

How many syllables are in comatoseness?

comatoseness has 5 syllables and divides as co-ma-to-se-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 comatoseness?

Close synonyms include coma. 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 comatoseness a common word?

comatoseness 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.