indistinctness

Other forms of indistinctness

plural

indistinctnesses·

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 indistinctness

What does indistinctness mean?

indistinctness means "the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines".

How many syllables are in indistinctness?

indistinctness has 4 syllables and divides as in-di-stinct-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for indistinctness?

Close synonyms include softness, blurriness, fogginess, fuzziness. 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 indistinctness?

The recorded antonyms are distinctness.

Is indistinctness a common word?

indistinctness 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.