inattentiveness

Other forms of inattentiveness

plural

inattentivenesses·

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 inattentiveness

What does inattentiveness mean?

inattentiveness means "a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inattentiveness?

inattentiveness has 6 syllables: i-nat-ten-ti-ve-ness. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for inattentiveness?

Close synonyms include heedlessness. 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 inattentiveness?

The recorded antonyms are attentiveness, attentiveness.

Is inattentiveness a common word?

inattentiveness 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.