impressiveness

Other forms of impressiveness

plural

impressivenesses·

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 impressiveness

What does impressiveness mean?

impressiveness means "splendid or imposing in size or appearance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in impressiveness?

impressiveness has 5 syllables: im-pres-si-ve-ness. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for impressiveness?

Close synonyms include grandness, magnificence, richness. 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 impressiveness a common word?

impressiveness 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.