interestingness

1. 1.

   the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.)

   “they said nothing of great interest”

   “primary colors can add interest to a room”

   Synonymsinterest

   Antonymsuninterestingness

   Broaderpower

   Narrowercharismanewsworthinesstopicalitycolorshrillness

Other forms of interestingness

plural

interestingnesses·

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 interestingness

What does interestingness mean?

interestingness means "the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.)".

How many syllables are in interestingness?

interestingness has 5 syllables: in-te-re-sting-ness. The stress falls on "re".

What is another word for interestingness?

Close synonyms include interest. 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 interestingness?

The recorded antonyms are uninterestingness.

Is interestingness a common word?

interestingness 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.