contemptuousness

1. 1.

   the manifestation of scorn and contempt

   “every subordinate sensed his contemptuousness and hated him in return”

   Broaderarrogance

Other forms of contemptuousness

plural

contemptuousnesses·

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 contemptuousness

What does contemptuousness mean?

contemptuousness means "the manifestation of scorn and contempt".

How many syllables are in contemptuousness?

contemptuousness has 5 syllables: con-temp-tu-ou-sness. The stress falls on "tu".

Is contemptuousness a common word?

contemptuousness 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.