rudeness

Other forms of rudeness

plural

rudenesses·

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 rudeness

What does rudeness mean?

rudeness means "a manner that is rude and insulting". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rudeness?

rudeness has 2 syllables: rude-ness. The stress falls on "rude". In IPA it is /ˈɹudnəs/.

What is another word for rudeness?

Close synonyms include discourtesy, crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, primitivism. 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 rudeness a common word?

rudeness is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.