firmness

Other forms of firmness

plural

firmnesses·

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 firmness

What does firmness mean?

firmness means "the muscle tone of healthy tissue". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in firmness?

firmness has 2 syllables: firm-ness. The stress falls on "firm". In IPA it is /ˈfɝmnəs/.

What is another word for firmness?

Close synonyms include soundness, resoluteness, firmness of purpose, resolve, resolution. 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 firmness a common word?

firmness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.