largesse

Other forms of largesse

plural

largesses·

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 largesse

What does largesse mean?

largesse means "a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in largesse?

largesse has 2 syllables: lar-gesse. The stress falls on "gesse". In IPA it is /lɑɹˈɡɛs/.

What is another word for largesse?

Close synonyms include largess, munificence, largess, magnanimity, openhandedness. 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 largesse a common word?

largesse is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with largesse?

2 words rhyme with largesse. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.