criticality

Other forms of criticality

plural

criticalities·

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 criticality

What does criticality mean?

criticality means "a state of critical urgency". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in criticality?

criticality has 5 syllables: crit-i-cal-i-ty. The stress falls on "cal". In IPA it is /ˌkɹɪtəˈkæləti/.

What is another word for criticality?

Close synonyms include criticalness, cruciality. 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 criticality a common word?

criticality 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.

What rhymes with criticality?

3 words rhyme with criticality. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.