painstakingness

Questions about painstakingness

What does painstakingness mean?

painstakingness means "the trait of being painstaking and careful".

How many syllables are in painstakingness?

painstakingness has 4 syllables: pain-sta-king-ness. The stress falls on "sta".

What is another word for painstakingness?

Close synonyms include conscientiousness. 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 painstakingness a common word?

painstakingness 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.