dimness

Other forms of dimness

plural

dimnesses·

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 dimness

What does dimness mean?

dimness means "the state of being poorly illuminated". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dimness?

dimness has 2 syllables: dim-ness. The stress falls on "dim".

What is another word for dimness?

Close synonyms include duskiness, subduedness, faintness. 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 dimness a common word?

dimness 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.