distinctness

Other forms of distinctness

plural

distinctnesses·

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 distinctness

What does distinctness mean?

distinctness means "the quality of being sharp and clear". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in distinctness?

distinctness has 3 syllables: di-stinct-ness. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for distinctness?

Close synonyms include sharpness, discreteness, separateness, severalty, otherness. 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 distinctness?

The recorded antonyms are indistinctness.

Is distinctness a common word?

distinctness 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.