hardiness

Other forms of hardiness

plural

hardinesses·

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 hardiness

What does hardiness mean?

hardiness means "the property of being strong and healthy in constitution". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hardiness?

hardiness has 3 syllables: har-di-ness. The stress falls on "har".

What is another word for hardiness?

Close synonyms include robustness, lustiness, boldness, daring, hardihood. 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 hardiness a common word?

hardiness 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.