purposefulness

Questions about purposefulness

What does purposefulness mean?

purposefulness means "the quality of having a definite purpose".

How many syllables are in purposefulness?

purposefulness has 5 syllables: pur-po-se-ful-ness. The stress falls on "se".

What is another word for purposefulness?

Close synonyms include sense of purpose. 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.

What is the opposite of purposefulness?

The recorded antonyms are purposelessness.

Is purposefulness a common word?

purposefulness 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.