itchiness

1. 1.

   an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch

   Synonymsitchitching

   Broadercutaneous sensation

   Narrowerpruritus

Other forms of itchiness

plural

itchinesses·

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 itchiness

What does itchiness mean?

itchiness means "an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch".

How many syllables are in itchiness?

itchiness has 3 syllables: it-chi-ness. The stress falls on "it".

What is another word for itchiness?

Close synonyms include itch, itching. 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 itchiness a common word?

itchiness 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.