compassionateness

Questions about compassionateness

What does compassionateness mean?

compassionateness means "a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering".

How many syllables are in compassionateness?

compassionateness has 7 syllables and divides as com-pas-si-o-na-te-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 compassionateness?

Close synonyms include compassion. 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 compassionateness a common word?

compassionateness 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.