iciness

Other forms of iciness

plural

icinesses·

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 iciness

What does iciness mean?

iciness means "coldness due to a cold environment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in iciness?

iciness has 3 syllables: i-ci-ness. The stress falls on "i".

What is another word for iciness?

Close synonyms include chill, gelidity, coldness, coolness, frigidity. 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 iciness a common word?

iciness 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.