distressingness

Questions about distressingness

What does distressingness mean?

distressingness means "the quality of being painful".

How many syllables are in distressingness?

distressingness has 4 syllables and divides as di-stres-sing-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 distressingness?

Close synonyms include painfulness. 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 distressingness a common word?

distressingness 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.