oppressiveness

Other forms of oppressiveness

plural

oppressivenesses·

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 oppressiveness

What does oppressiveness mean?

oppressiveness means "a feeling of being oppressed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oppressiveness?

oppressiveness has 5 syllables: op-pres-si-ve-ness. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for oppressiveness?

Close synonyms include oppression, burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness. 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 oppressiveness a common word?

oppressiveness 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.