ingenuousness

Other forms of ingenuousness

plural

ingenuousnesses·

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 ingenuousness

What does ingenuousness mean?

ingenuousness means "the quality of innocent naivete". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ingenuousness?

ingenuousness has 5 syllables: in-ge-nu-ou-sness. The stress falls on "nu".

What is another word for ingenuousness?

Close synonyms include artlessness, innocence, naturalness. 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 ingenuousness?

The recorded antonyms are disingenuousness.

Is ingenuousness a common word?

ingenuousness 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.