refractoriness

Questions about refractoriness

What does refractoriness mean?

refractoriness means "the trait of being unmanageable".

How many syllables are in refractoriness?

refractoriness has 5 syllables and divides as re-frac-to-ri-ness 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 refractoriness?

Close synonyms include unmanageableness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy. 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 refractoriness a common word?

refractoriness 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.