doubtfulness

Other forms of doubtfulness

plural

doubtfulnesses·

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 doubtfulness

What does doubtfulness mean?

doubtfulness means "the state of being unsure of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in doubtfulness?

doubtfulness has 3 syllables: doubt-ful-ness. The stress falls on "doubt".

What is another word for doubtfulness?

Close synonyms include doubt, uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, dubiousness. 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 doubtfulness a common word?

doubtfulness 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.