distinctiveness

Other forms of distinctiveness

plural

distinctivenesses·

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 distinctiveness

What does distinctiveness mean?

distinctiveness means "a distinguishing trait". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in distinctiveness?

distinctiveness has 4 syllables: di-stinc-tive-ness. The stress falls on "stinc". In IPA it is /dɪˈstɪŋktɪvnəs/.

What is another word for distinctiveness?

Close synonyms include peculiarity, specialness, specialty, speciality, disparateness. 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 distinctiveness a common word?

distinctiveness 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.