denseness

Other forms of denseness

plural

densenesses·

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 denseness

What does denseness mean?

denseness means "the quality of being mentally slow and limited". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in denseness?

denseness has 3 syllables: den-se-ness. The stress falls on "den".

What is another word for denseness?

Close synonyms include dumbness, slow-wittedness, concentration, density, tightness. 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 denseness a common word?

denseness 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.