foulness

Other forms of foulness

plural

foulnesses·

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 foulness

What does foulness mean?

foulness means "disgusting wickedness and immorality". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foulness?

foulness has 2 syllables: foul-ness. The stress falls on "foul". In IPA it is /ˈfaʊlnəs/.

What is another word for foulness?

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

foulness 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.