ghastliness

Questions about ghastliness

What does ghastliness mean?

ghastliness means "the quality of being ghastly".

How many syllables are in ghastliness?

ghastliness has 3 syllables: ghast-li-ness. The stress falls on "ghast". In IPA it is /ˈɡæstlinəs/.

What is another word for ghastliness?

Close synonyms include grimness, gruesomeness, luridness. 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 ghastliness a common word?

ghastliness 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.