friendliness

Other forms of friendliness

plural

friendlinesses·

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 friendliness

What does friendliness mean?

friendliness means "a feeling of liking for another person; enjoyment in their company". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in friendliness?

friendliness has 3 syllables: friend-li-ness. The stress falls on "friend". In IPA it is /ˈfɹɛndlinɪs/.

What is the opposite of friendliness?

The recorded antonyms are unfriendliness, unfriendliness.

Is friendliness a common word?

friendliness 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.