obtuseness

Other forms of obtuseness

plural

obtusenesses·

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 obtuseness

What does obtuseness mean?

obtuseness means "the quality of being slow to understand". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obtuseness?

obtuseness has 4 syllables: ob-tu-se-ness. The stress falls on "tu".

What is another word for obtuseness?

Close synonyms include dullness. 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 obtuseness?

The recorded antonyms are acuteness.

Is obtuseness a common word?

obtuseness 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.