cruelness

Questions about cruelness

What does cruelness mean?

cruelness means "the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance".

How many syllables are in cruelness?

cruelness has 2 syllables and divides as cruel-ness 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 cruelness?

Close synonyms include cruelty, harshness. 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 cruelness a common word?

cruelness 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.