fetidness

Questions about fetidness

What does fetidness mean?

fetidness means "the attribute of having a strong offensive smell".

How many syllables are in fetidness?

fetidness has 3 syllables and divides as fe-tid-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for fetidness?

Close synonyms include malodorousness, stinkiness, foulness, rankness. 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 fetidness a common word?

fetidness 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.