loudness

Other forms of loudness

plural

loudnesses·

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 loudness

What does loudness mean?

loudness means "the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in loudness?

loudness has 2 syllables: loud-ness. The stress falls on "loud".

What is another word for loudness?

Close synonyms include volume, intensity, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness. 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.

What is the opposite of loudness?

The recorded antonyms are softness.

Is loudness a common word?

loudness 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.