fastness

Other forms of fastness

plural

fastnesses·

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 fastness

What does fastness mean?

fastness means "a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fastness?

fastness has 2 syllables: fast-ness. The stress falls on "fast". In IPA it is /ˈfæstnəs/.

What is another word for fastness?

Close synonyms include speed, swiftness, fixedness, fixity, fixture. 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 fastness a common word?

fastness 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.

What rhymes with fastness?

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