massiveness

Other forms of massiveness

plural

massivenesses·

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 massiveness

What does massiveness mean?

massiveness means "an unwieldy largeness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in massiveness?

massiveness has 4 syllables: mas-si-ve-ness. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for massiveness?

Close synonyms include bulkiness, heft, heftiness, ponderousness, ponderosity. 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 massiveness a common word?

massiveness 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.