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: lewd-ness. The stress falls on "lewd".

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.