physicalness

Other forms of physicalness

plural

physicalnesses·

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 physicalness

What does physicalness mean?

physicalness means "the quality of being physical; consisting of matter".

How many syllables are in physicalness?

physicalness has 4 syllables and divides as phy-si-cal-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 physicalness?

Close synonyms include materiality, corporeality, corporality. 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 physicalness a common word?

physicalness 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.