graciousness

1. 1.

   excellence of manners or social conduct

   Antonymsungraciousness

   Broadercourtesy

   Narrowersuavity
2. 2.

   the quality of being kind and gentle

   Synonymsbenignitybenignancy

   Broadergood

Other forms of graciousness

plural

graciousnesses·

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 graciousness

What does graciousness mean?

graciousness means "excellence of manners or social conduct". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in graciousness?

graciousness has 3 syllables: gra-ciou-sness. The stress falls on "gra". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹeɪʃəsnəs/.

What is another word for graciousness?

Close synonyms include benignity, benignancy. 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 graciousness?

The recorded antonyms are ungraciousness.

Is graciousness a common word?

graciousness 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.