inactiveness

Other forms of inactiveness

plural

inactivenesses·

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 inactiveness

What does inactiveness mean?

inactiveness means "the state of being inactive". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inactiveness?

inactiveness has 5 syllables: i-nac-ti-ve-ness. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for inactiveness?

Close synonyms include inaction, inactivity, inactivity, inertia. 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 inactiveness?

The recorded antonyms are activeness, activeness.

Is inactiveness a common word?

inactiveness 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.