connectedness

1. 1.

   the state of being connected

   “the connection between church and state is inescapable”

   Synonymsconnectionlink

   Antonymsdisconnectedness

   Broaderunion

   Narrowercontactconcatenationinterconnectioncoherence
2. 2.

   a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)

   “there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare”

   Synonymsconnectionconnexion

   Antonymsunconnectedness

   Broaderrelation

   Narrowerseriesalliancelinkagecommunicationconcatenationbridgeinvolvementrelevancerelatedness

Other forms of connectedness

plural

connectednesses·

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 connectedness

What does connectedness mean?

connectedness means "the state of being connected". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in connectedness?

connectedness has 4 syllables: con-nec-ted-ness. The stress falls on "nec".

What is another word for connectedness?

Close synonyms include connection, link, connection, connexion. 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 connectedness?

The recorded antonyms are disconnectedness, unconnectedness.

Is connectedness a common word?

connectedness 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.