neighborliness

Questions about neighborliness

What does neighborliness mean?

neighborliness means "a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors".

How many syllables are in neighborliness?

neighborliness has 4 syllables and divides as neigh-bor-li-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 neighborliness?

Close synonyms include neighbourliness, good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness. 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.

What is the opposite of neighborliness?

The recorded antonyms are unneighborliness.

Is neighborliness a common word?

neighborliness 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.