indebtedness

Other forms of indebtedness

plural

indebtednesses·

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 indebtedness

What does indebtedness mean?

indebtedness means "an obligation to pay money to another party". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indebtedness?

indebtedness has 4 syllables: in-deb-ted-ness. The stress falls on "deb". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdɛtɪdnɪs/.

What is another word for indebtedness?

Close synonyms include liability, financial obligation, obligation. 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 indebtedness a common word?

indebtedness 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.