honestness

Other forms of honestness

plural

honestnesses·

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 honestness

What does honestness mean?

honestness means "the quality of being honest".

How many syllables are in honestness?

honestness has 3 syllables: ho-nest-ness. The stress falls on "ho".

What is another word for honestness?

Close synonyms include honesty. 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 honestness a common word?

honestness 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.