itchiness

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 and divides as it-chi-ness 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 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.