messiness

Other forms of messiness

plural

messinesses·

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 messiness

What does messiness mean?

messiness means "a state of confusion and disorderliness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in messiness?

messiness has 3 syllables: mes-si-ness. The stress falls on "mes".

What is another word for messiness?

Close synonyms include mess, muss, mussiness, untidiness. 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 messiness a common word?

messiness 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.