feverishness

Questions about feverishness

What does feverishness mean?

feverishness means "a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection".

How many syllables are in feverishness?

feverishness has 4 syllables and divides as fe-ve-rish-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 feverishness?

Close synonyms include fever, febrility, febricity, pyrexia. 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 feverishness a common word?

feverishness 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.