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 and divides as pain-sta-king-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.