responsiveness

Other forms of responsiveness

plural

responsivenesses·

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 responsiveness

What does responsiveness mean?

responsiveness means "responsive to stimulation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in responsiveness?

responsiveness has 4 syllables: re-spon-sive-ness. The stress falls on "spon". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈspɑnsɪvnəs/.

What is another word for responsiveness?

Close synonyms include reactivity. 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 responsiveness?

The recorded antonyms are unresponsiveness.

Is responsiveness a common word?

responsiveness 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.