lengthiness

Other forms of lengthiness

plural

lengthinesses·

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 lengthiness

What does lengthiness mean?

lengthiness means "amount or degree or range to which something extends". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lengthiness?

lengthiness has 3 syllables: leng-thi-ness. The stress falls on "leng".

What is another word for lengthiness?

Close synonyms include extension, prolongation, prolongation, continuation, protraction. 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 lengthiness a common word?

lengthiness 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.