maidenliness

1. 1.

   behavior befitting a young maiden

   Broaderfemininity

Other forms of maidenliness

plural

maidenlinesses·

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 maidenliness

What does maidenliness mean?

maidenliness means "behavior befitting a young maiden".

How many syllables are in maidenliness?

maidenliness has 4 syllables and divides as mai-den-li-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.