dirtiness

Other forms of dirtiness

plural

dirtinesses·

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 dirtiness

What does dirtiness mean?

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

How many syllables are in dirtiness?

dirtiness has 3 syllables: dir-ti-ness. The stress falls on "dir".

What is another word for dirtiness?

Close synonyms include uncleanness, smuttiness. 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.

What is the opposite of dirtiness?

The recorded antonyms are cleanness.

Is dirtiness a common word?

dirtiness 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.