earnestness

Other forms of earnestness

plural

earnestnesses·

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 earnestness

What does earnestness mean?

earnestness means "an earnest and sincere feeling". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in earnestness?

earnestness has 3 syllables: ear-nest-ness. The stress falls on "ear". In IPA it is /ˈɝnəstnəs/.

What is another word for earnestness?

Close synonyms include seriousness, sincerity, seriousness, serious-mindedness, sincerity. 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 earnestness a common word?

earnestness 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.