gumminess

Questions about gumminess

What does gumminess mean?

gumminess means "the property of being cohesive and sticky".

How many syllables are in gumminess?

gumminess has 3 syllables and divides as gum-mi-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 gumminess?

Close synonyms include cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, tackiness, ropiness. 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 gumminess a common word?

gumminess 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.