rebelliousness

Other forms of rebelliousness

plural

rebelliousnesses·

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 rebelliousness

What does rebelliousness mean?

rebelliousness means "intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rebelliousness?

rebelliousness has 5 syllables: re-bel-li-ou-sness. The stress falls on "bel". In IPA it is /ɹəˈbɛliəsnəs/.

What is another word for rebelliousness?

Close synonyms include defiance, insubordination. 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 rebelliousness a common word?

rebelliousness 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.