commonness

Other forms of commonness

plural

commonnesses·

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 commonness

What does commonness mean?

commonness means "the state of being that is commonly observed". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in commonness?

commonness has 3 syllables: com-mon-ness. The stress falls on "com".

What is another word for commonness?

Close synonyms include expectedness, coarseness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism. 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.

What is the opposite of commonness?

The recorded antonyms are uncommonness.

Is commonness a common word?

commonness 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.