humbleness

Other forms of humbleness

plural

humblenesses·

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 humbleness

What does humbleness mean?

humbleness means "the state of being humble and unimportant". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in humbleness?

humbleness has 3 syllables: hum-ble-ness. The stress falls on "hum".

What is another word for humbleness?

Close synonyms include unimportance, obscureness, lowliness, humility, humility. 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 humbleness a common word?

humbleness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.