rosiness

Other forms of rosiness

plural

rosinesses·

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 rosiness

What does rosiness mean?

rosiness means "a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rosiness?

rosiness has 3 syllables: ro-si-ness. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for rosiness?

Close synonyms include bloom, blush, flush, ruddiness, rose. 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 rosiness a common word?

rosiness 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.