insalubrity

Questions about insalubrity

What does insalubrity mean?

insalubrity means "the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating".

How many syllables are in insalubrity?

insalubrity has 5 syllables and divides as in-sa-lu-bri-ty 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 insalubrity?

Close synonyms include insalubriousness. 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 insalubrity?

The recorded antonyms are salubrity.

Is insalubrity a common word?

insalubrity 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.