mildness

Other forms of mildness

plural

mildnesses·

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 mildness

What does mildness mean?

mildness means "good weather with comfortable temperatures". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mildness?

mildness has 2 syllables: mild-ness. The stress falls on "mild".

What is another word for mildness?

Close synonyms include clemency, gentleness, softness, lenience, leniency. 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 mildness a common word?

mildness 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.