freshness

Other forms of freshness

plural

freshnesses·

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 freshness

What does freshness mean?

freshness means "the property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in freshness?

freshness has 2 syllables: fresh-ness. The stress falls on "fresh". In IPA it is /ˈfɹɛʃnəs/.

What is another word for freshness?

Close synonyms include novelty, glow, novelty, crust, gall. 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.

What is the opposite of freshness?

The recorded antonyms are staleness.

Is freshness a common word?

freshness 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.