loathsomeness

Questions about loathsomeness

What does loathsomeness mean?

loathsomeness means "the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions".

How many syllables are in loathsomeness?

loathsomeness has 5 syllables and divides as lo-ath-so-me-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 loathsomeness?

Close synonyms include repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, lousiness, wickedness. 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 loathsomeness a common word?

loathsomeness 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.