lessening

Other forms of lessening

plural

lessenings·

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 lessening

What does lessening mean?

lessening means "a change downward".

How many syllables are in lessening?

lessening has 3 syllables: les-se-ning. The stress falls on "les". In IPA it is /ˈlɛsənɪŋ/.

What is another word for lessening?

Close synonyms include decrease, drop-off. 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 lessening a common word?

lessening 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.