licentiousness

Other forms of licentiousness

plural

licentiousnesses·

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 licentiousness

What does licentiousness mean?

licentiousness means "the quality of being lewd and lascivious". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in licentiousness?

licentiousness has 5 syllables: li-cen-ti-ou-sness. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for licentiousness?

Close synonyms include wantonness, profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, looseness. 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 licentiousness a common word?

licentiousness 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.