foxiness

Questions about foxiness

What does foxiness mean?

foxiness means "shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception".

How many syllables are in foxiness?

foxiness has 3 syllables: fox-i-ness. The stress falls on "fox".

What is another word for foxiness?

Close synonyms include craft, craftiness, cunning, guile, slyness. 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 foxiness a common word?

foxiness 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.