deftness

Other forms of deftness

plural

deftnesses·

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 deftness

What does deftness mean?

deftness means "skillful performance or ability without difficulty".

How many syllables are in deftness?

deftness has 2 syllables: deft-ness. The stress falls on "deft".

What is another word for deftness?

Close synonyms include adeptness, adroitness, facility, quickness. 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 deftness a common word?

deftness 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.