robustness

Questions about robustness

What does robustness mean?

robustness means "the property of being strong and healthy in constitution". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in robustness?

robustness has 3 syllables: ro-bust-ness. The stress falls on "bust". In IPA it is /ɹoʊˈbʌstnəs/.

What is another word for robustness?

Close synonyms include hardiness, lustiness. 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 robustness a common word?

robustness 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.