highness

Other forms of highness

plural

highnesses·

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 highness

What does highness mean?

highness means "(Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title used to address a royal person". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in highness?

highness has 2 syllables: high-ness. The stress falls on "high". In IPA it is /ˈhaɪnəs/.

What is another word for highness?

Close synonyms include loftiness. 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.

What is the opposite of highness?

The recorded antonyms are lowness.

Is highness a common word?

highness is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.