effectiveness

Other forms of effectiveness

plural

effectivenesses·

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 effectiveness

What does effectiveness mean?

effectiveness means "power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in effectiveness?

effectiveness has 4 syllables: ef-fec-tive-ness. The stress falls on "fec". In IPA it is /ɪˈfɛktɪvnəs/.

What is another word for effectiveness?

Close synonyms include effectivity, effectualness, effectuality, potency, strength. 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 effectiveness?

The recorded antonyms are ineffectiveness.

Is effectiveness a common word?

effectiveness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with effectiveness?

1 word rhymes with effectiveness. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.