importance

Other forms of importance

plural

importances·

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 importance

What does importance mean?

importance means "the quality of being important and worthy of note". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in importance?

importance has 3 syllables: im-por-tance. The stress falls on "por". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˈpɔɹtəns/.

What is another word for importance?

Close synonyms include grandness. 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 importance?

The recorded antonyms are unimportance.

Is importance a common word?

importance 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.