contiguousness

1. 1.

   the attribute of being so near as to be touching

   Synonymsadjacencycontiguity

   Broadernearness

Other forms of contiguousness

plural

contiguousnesses·

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 contiguousness

What does contiguousness mean?

contiguousness means "the attribute of being so near as to be touching".

How many syllables are in contiguousness?

contiguousness has 5 syllables: con-ti-gu-ou-sness. The stress falls on "gu".

What is another word for contiguousness?

Close synonyms include adjacency, contiguity. 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 contiguousness a common word?

contiguousness 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.