heftiness

Other forms of heftiness

plural

heftinesses·

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 heftiness

What does heftiness mean?

heftiness means "possessing muscular strength". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in heftiness?

heftiness has 3 syllables: hef-ti-ness. The stress falls on "hef".

What is another word for heftiness?

Close synonyms include brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew. 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 heftiness a common word?

heftiness 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.