greatness

Other forms of greatness

plural

greatnesses·

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 greatness

What does greatness mean?

greatness means "the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in greatness?

greatness has 2 syllables: great-ness. The stress falls on "great". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹeɪtnəs/.

What is another word for greatness?

Close synonyms include illustriousness, enormousness, grandness, immenseness, immensity. 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 greatness a common word?

greatness is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.