lowness

Other forms of lowness

plural

lownesses·

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 lowness

What does lowness mean?

lowness means "a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lowness?

lowness has 2 syllables: low-ness. The stress falls on "low".

What is another word for lowness?

Close synonyms include low status, lowliness, downheartedness, dejectedness, low-spiritedness. 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 lowness?

The recorded antonyms are highness.

Is lowness a common word?

lowness 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.