justness

Other forms of justness

plural

justnesses·

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 justness

What does justness mean?

justness means "conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in justness?

justness has 2 syllables: just-ness. The stress falls on "just".

What is another word for justness?

Close synonyms include rightness, nicety, justice. 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 justness a common word?

justness 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.