disorderliness

Other forms of disorderliness

plural

disorderlinesses·

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 disorderliness

What does disorderliness mean?

disorderliness means "a condition in which things are not in their expected places". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disorderliness?

disorderliness has 5 syllables and divides as di-sor-der-li-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 disorderliness?

Close synonyms include disorder, rowdiness, rowdyism, roughness, disarray. 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 disorderliness?

The recorded antonyms are orderliness.

Is disorderliness a common word?

disorderliness 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.