dispensableness

1. 1.

   the quality possessed by something that you can get along without

   Synonymsdispensability

   Antonymsindispensableness

   Broaderinessentiality

Other forms of dispensableness

plural

dispensablenesses·

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 dispensableness

What does dispensableness mean?

dispensableness means "the quality possessed by something that you can get along without".

How many syllables are in dispensableness?

dispensableness has 5 syllables: di-spen-sa-ble-ness. The stress falls on "sa".

What is another word for dispensableness?

Close synonyms include dispensability. 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 dispensableness?

The recorded antonyms are indispensableness.

Is dispensableness a common word?

dispensableness 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.