mistiness

Questions about mistiness

What does mistiness mean?

mistiness means "cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor".

How many syllables are in mistiness?

mistiness has 3 syllables and divides as mi-sti-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.

What is another word for mistiness?

Close synonyms include haziness, steaminess, vaporousness, vapourousness. 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 mistiness a common word?

mistiness 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.