obligingness

Questions about obligingness

What does obligingness mean?

obligingness means "a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others".

How many syllables are in obligingness?

obligingness has 4 syllables and divides as o-bli-ging-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 obligingness?

Close synonyms include complaisance, compliance, compliancy, deference. 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 obligingness a common word?

obligingness 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.