diminutiveness

Questions about diminutiveness

What does diminutiveness mean?

diminutiveness means "the property of being very small in size".

How many syllables are in diminutiveness?

diminutiveness has 6 syllables and divides as di-mi-nu-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 diminutiveness?

Close synonyms include minuteness, petiteness, tininess, weeness. 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 diminutiveness a common word?

diminutiveness 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.