obstreperousness

1. 1.

   noisy defiance

   Broaderdefiance

Other forms of obstreperousness

plural

obstreperousnesses·

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 obstreperousness

What does obstreperousness mean?

obstreperousness means "noisy defiance".

How many syllables are in obstreperousness?

obstreperousness has 5 syllables and divides as ob-stre-pe-rou-sness 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.