modestness

1. 1.

   the property of being moderate in price or expenditures

   “the store is famous for the reasonableness of its prices”

   “the modestness of the living standards here becomes obvious immediately”

   Synonymsreasonablenessmoderateness

   Broaderinexpensiveness
2. 2.

   freedom from vanity or conceit

   Synonymsmodesty

   Broaderdecency

   Narrowerprimness

Other forms of modestness

plural

modestnesses·

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 modestness

What does modestness mean?

modestness means "the property of being moderate in price or expenditures". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in modestness?

modestness has 3 syllables: mo-dest-ness. The stress falls on "mo".

What is another word for modestness?

Close synonyms include reasonableness, moderateness, modesty. 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 modestness a common word?

modestness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.