forwardness

Other forms of forwardness

plural

forwardnesses·

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 forwardness

What does forwardness mean?

forwardness means "offensive boldness and assertiveness". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in forwardness?

forwardness has 3 syllables: for-ward-ness. The stress falls on "for".

What is another word for forwardness?

Close synonyms include bumptiousness, cockiness, pushiness, readiness, eagerness. 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 forwardness a common word?

forwardness 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.