lewdness

Questions about lewdness

What does lewdness mean?

lewdness means "the trait of behaving in an obscene manner".

How many syllables are in lewdness?

lewdness has 2 syllables and divides as lewd-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 lewdness?

Close synonyms include obscenity, bawdiness, salaciousness, salacity. 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 lewdness a common word?

lewdness 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.