mournfulness

Questions about mournfulness

What does mournfulness mean?

mournfulness means "a state of gloomy sorrow".

How many syllables are in mournfulness?

mournfulness has 3 syllables: mourn-ful-ness. The stress falls on "mourn".

What is another word for mournfulness?

Close synonyms include sorrowfulness, ruthfulness. 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 mournfulness a common word?

mournfulness 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.