obviousness

Other forms of obviousness

plural

obviousnesses·

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 obviousness

What does obviousness mean?

obviousness means "the property of being easy to see and understand".

How many syllables are in obviousness?

obviousness has 4 syllables: ob-vi-ou-sness. The stress falls on "vi".

What is another word for obviousness?

Close synonyms include noticeability, noticeableness, patency. 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 obviousness a common word?

obviousness 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.