industriousness

Other forms of industriousness

plural

industriousnesses·

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 industriousness

What does industriousness mean?

industriousness means "persevering determination to perform a task".

How many syllables are in industriousness?

industriousness has 5 syllables and divides as in-du-stri-ou-sness 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 industriousness?

Close synonyms include diligence, industry. 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 industriousness a common word?

industriousness 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.