glossiness

Questions about glossiness

What does glossiness mean?

glossiness means "the property of being smooth and shiny".

How many syllables are in glossiness?

glossiness has 3 syllables and divides as glos-si-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for glossiness?

Close synonyms include polish, gloss, burnish. 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 glossiness a common word?

glossiness 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.