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say it: pree-PER-uhd-nuhs
preparedness is a noun meaning "the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action)". It is pronounced /pɹiˈpɛɹədnəs/ — pree-PER-uhd-nuhs. It carries one recorded sense.
the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action)
“putting them in readiness”
“their preparation was more than adequate”
military
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for preparedness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.