injuriousness

Questions about injuriousness

What does injuriousness mean?

injuriousness means "destructiveness that causes harm or injury".

How many syllables are in injuriousness?

injuriousness has 5 syllables and divides as in-ju-ri-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 injuriousness?

Close synonyms include harmfulness. 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 injuriousness a common word?

injuriousness 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.