favourableness

Other forms of favourableness

plural

favourablenesses·

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 favourableness

What does favourableness mean?

favourableness means "the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome".

How many syllables are in favourableness?

favourableness has 5 syllables: fa-vou-ra-ble-ness. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for favourableness?

Close synonyms include favorableness, advantageousness, positivity, positiveness, profitableness. 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 favourableness?

The recorded antonyms are unfavourableness.

Is favourableness a common word?

favourableness 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.