fogginess

Other forms of fogginess

plural

fogginesses·

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 fogginess

What does fogginess mean?

fogginess means "an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fogginess?

fogginess has 3 syllables: fog-gi-ness. The stress falls on "fog".

What is another word for fogginess?

Close synonyms include fog, murk, murkiness, indistinctness, softness. 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 fogginess a common word?

fogginess 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.