remoteness

Other forms of remoteness

plural

remotenesses·

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 remoteness

What does remoteness mean?

remoteness means "the property of being remote". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in remoteness?

remoteness has 3 syllables: remo-te-ness. The stress falls on "te". In IPA it is /ɹiˈmoʊtnəs/.

What is another word for remoteness?

Close synonyms include farness, farawayness, aloofness, standoffishness, withdrawnness. 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 remoteness a common word?

remoteness 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.