pitilessness

Other forms of pitilessness

plural

pitilessnesses·

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 pitilessness

What does pitilessness mean?

pitilessness means "feelings of extreme heartlessness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pitilessness?

pitilessness has 4 syllables: pi-ti-les-sness. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for pitilessness?

Close synonyms include cruelty, mercilessness, ruthlessness, ruthlessness. 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 pitilessness a common word?

pitilessness 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.