heinousness

Questions about heinousness

What does heinousness mean?

heinousness means "the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane".

How many syllables are in heinousness?

heinousness has 3 syllables and divides as hei-nou-sness 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 heinousness?

Close synonyms include atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness. 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 heinousness a common word?

heinousness 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.