mercilessness

Other forms of mercilessness

plural

mercilessnesses·

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 mercilessness

What does mercilessness mean?

mercilessness means "feelings of extreme heartlessness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mercilessness?

mercilessness has 4 syllables: mer-ci-les-sness. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for mercilessness?

Close synonyms include cruelty, pitilessness, ruthlessness, unmercifulness. 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 mercilessness?

The recorded antonyms are mercifulness.

Is mercilessness a common word?

mercilessness 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.