redness

Other forms of redness

plural

rednesses·

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 redness

What does redness mean?

redness means "a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in redness?

redness has 2 syllables: red-ness. The stress falls on "red". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛdnəs/.

What is another word for redness?

Close synonyms include inflammation, rubor, red. 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 redness a common word?

redness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.