courageousness

Other forms of courageousness

plural

courageousnesses·

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 courageousness

What does courageousness mean?

courageousness means "a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear".

How many syllables are in courageousness?

courageousness has 5 syllables and divides as cou-ra-ge-ou-sness 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 courageousness?

Close synonyms include courage, bravery, braveness. 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 courageousness a common word?

courageousness 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.