filthiness

Questions about filthiness

What does filthiness mean?

filthiness means "a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in filthiness?

filthiness has 3 syllables: fil-thi-ness. The stress falls on "fil".

What is another word for filthiness?

Close synonyms include filth, foulness, nastiness. 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 filthiness a common word?

filthiness 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.