presumptuousness

Questions about presumptuousness

What does presumptuousness mean?

presumptuousness means "audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to".

How many syllables are in presumptuousness?

presumptuousness has 5 syllables and divides as pre-sump-tu-ou-sness 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 presumptuousness?

Close synonyms include presumption, effrontery, assumption. 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 presumptuousness a common word?

presumptuousness 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.