oleaginousness

Other forms of oleaginousness

plural

oleaginousnesses·

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 oleaginousness

What does oleaginousness mean?

oleaginousness means "consisting of or covered with oil". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oleaginousness?

oleaginousness has 6 syllables: o-le-a-gi-nou-sness. The stress falls on "gi".

What is another word for oleaginousness?

Close synonyms include greasiness, oiliness, fulsomeness, oiliness, smarminess. 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 oleaginousness a common word?

oleaginousness 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.