heartsease

1. 1.

   a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived

   Synonymswild pansyJohnny-jump-uplove-in-idlenesspink of my JohnViola tricolor

   Broaderviola
2. 2.

   violet of Pacific coast of North America having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet

   Synonymstwo-eyed violetViola ocellata

   Broaderviolet
3. 3.

   common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers

   Synonymsfield pansyViola arvensis

   Broaderviola
4. 4.

   the absence of mental stress or anxiety

   Synonymspeacepeacefulnesspeace of mindreposeserenityataraxis

   Broadertranquillity

Other forms of heartsease

plural

heartseases·

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 heartsease

What does heartsease mean?

heartsease means "a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in heartsease?

heartsease has 4 syllables: he-art-se-ase. The stress falls on "art".

What is another word for heartsease?

Close synonyms include wild pansy, Johnny-jump-up, love-in-idleness, pink of my John, Viola tricolor. 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 heartsease a common word?

heartsease 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.