deceptiveness

Questions about deceptiveness

What does deceptiveness mean?

deceptiveness means "the quality of being deceptive".

How many syllables are in deceptiveness?

deceptiveness has 5 syllables and divides as de-cep-ti-ve-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 deceptiveness?

Close synonyms include obliquity. 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 deceptiveness a common word?

deceptiveness 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.